Bug#1035733: debian -policy: packages must not use dpkg-divert to override default systemd configuraton files

[Luca Boccassi]

On Tue, 6 Jun 2023 at 11:45, Sean Whitton <spwhitton at spwhitton.name> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> On Sun 04 Jun 2023 at 01:35PM +01, Luca Boccassi wrote:
>
> > In the interest of speeding things up a bit, I've done some rewording
> > as suggested - moved to the exiting chapter, and use the systemd files
> > only as an example:
> >
> > https://salsa.debian.org/bluca/policy/-/commit/5058bd2f8c742c3d8695e2c98ee3a597d431ffd7
> >
> > Off-topic - any reasons MRs are disabled on the policy repo? It would
> > be much nicer and quicker to use the Gitlab review process I think,
> > like we do for other packages.
>
> It's actually on-topic -- can you post your proposed patch to this bug
> for inline review, please?  This is documented in README.md.  The main
> reason we have MRs disabled is that we want a complete record of the
> discussion that led up to a Policy change to be recorded in the BTS.
>
> A secondary reason is that I strongly disprefer doing patch review using
> an interface other than my mail client.

Well, the README says:

"Please submit a bug to the BTS, either with patches attached, or a
reference to a git branch that is publically fetchable."

The whole project is moving toward git and Salsa, and it is very
annoying to have to do drive-by contributions via email, it really
sucks as a process for contributors, so please consider re-evaluating
this in the future. Patch attached.

Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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