DEP-14 discussion and our packaging workflow

[Dmitry Shachnev]

Hi Aurélien!

On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 09:53:32PM +0200, Aurélien COUDERC wrote:
> Dear Team,
>
> there's an ongoing discussion in d-devel about formally adopting DEP-14 and
> I thought I would post a comment there about our debian-only packaging
> workflow because I feel it's being overlooked.
>
> Not that we're doing anything against what's written in dep-14 (we would
> probably have to rename our default branches from "master" but I consider
> that a non-issue), but most if not all participants in the discussion seem
> to expect that the upstream source *will* be in the repo in some form.
>
> So before chiming in I'm interesting in gathering some opinions from you,
> regular and occasional contributors.
>
> How much do you value the debian-only workflow ?

In my opinion debian-only workflow is essential for huge packages like
Qt WebEngine, where you don’t want the repo to eat all your disk space
(and also don’t want the push of new upstream release to take ages).

--
Dmitry Shachnev
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