DEP-14 discussion and our packaging workflow

[Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer]

Hi,

I'm currently retired from Qt/KDE packaging, but...

On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 at 16:53, Aurélien COUDERC <coucouf at debian.org> wrote:
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> Dear Team,
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> So before chiming in I'm interesting in gathering some opinions from you, regular and occasional contributors.
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> How much do you value the debian-only workflow ?

As I have expressed not so long ago in a similar thread, **a lot**.

> Would you be willing to switch to a workflow where we need to maintain commits / branches / tags representing upstream source for Qt and KDE packages ?

If I hadn't retired I would strongly go against this at any level. But
I retired already :-)