[Pkg-privacy-maintainers] Migration to Salsa

[u]

Hey,

Daniel Kahn Gillmor:
> On Thu 2018-04-05 13:53:00 +0000, u wrote:
>> Daniel Kahn Gillmor:
>>> On Wed 2018-03-28 17:21:00 +0000, u wrote:
>>>> u:
>>> are you aware of https://salsa.debian.org/salsa/AliothRewriter.git ?  if
>>> you give them a pull request it'll make the old alioth URLs explicitly
>>> do an HTTP redirection to salsa.  I usually make edits to
>>> definitions/general.conf, though if you want you could probably create
>>> definitions/privacy-team.conf separately if you like.  I'm sure either
>>> way would make sense.
>>
>> I created such a file and submitted a pull request today.
>>
>> FYI the README reads:
>>
>> The existance of this list should not mean that VCS control fields
>> shouldn't get updated with the next upload. This map is just a
>> workaround - after your upload please create another pull request that
>> deletes the unneeded entries.
>>
>> So let's make sure, we delete entries that have updated salsa fields
>> afterwards.
> 
> hm, I'm not convinced that this README makes sense.  I agree that the
> VCS control fields should be updated, but i'm not convinced that we
> should remove the unneeded entries.
> 
> In particular, if i'm working in a debian "stable" environment, and i do
> "debcheckout", it's going to pull from the Vcs fields listed in the
> debian sources for the "stable" distro. Those are likely to point to
> alioth still.
> 
> I don't intend for Alioth to continue to host source repos, and i *want*
> the redirection to last as long as anyone might try to visit the Alioth
> repositories.
> 
> In some future world, where all packages have transitioned to salsa, and
> we've stoppoed supporting any version of debian that still includes any
> alioth Vcs-* fields, maybe we can remove entries from
> AliothRewriter.git.  but in that world, we can just remove
> AliothRewriter (and the Alioth git server itself?)  anyway.
> 
> so i wouldn't bother with those removals, personally.  keep the
> redirections in place!

Apparently, they stay in place even after removal. So, indeed, no idea
why stuff should be removed :)

Cheers!
u.