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Debian’s git transition and Debian bug tracker woes
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LWN ☛ Jackson: Debian’s git transition [Ed: Same Ian Jackson who tried to cancel Torvalds (creator of Git) using a CoC]
Ian Jackson (along with Sean Whitton) has posted a manifesto and status
update to the effect that, since Git repositories have become the
preferred method to distribute source, that is how Debian should be
distributing its source packages.
Everyone who interacts with Debian source code should be able to
do so entirely in git.
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Jussi Pakkanen ☛ Jussi Pakkanen: An uncomfortable but necessary discussion about the Debian bug tracker
Note: this post represents my personal opinions as a Debian maintainer of a single package (Meson). It is not my intention to throw anyone involved in the service under a bus, but some things about it are not good and need to be spoken aloud (in my opinion anyway, other people may disagree and that is fine).
There was a post called Configuring a mail transfert [sic] agent to interact with the Debian bug tracker on Planet Debian. It contained the following statement: [...]
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Emmanuel Kasper: Configuring a mail transfert agent to interact with the Debian bug tracker
Email interface of the Debian bug tracker
The main interface of the Debian bug tracker, at http://bugs.debian.org, is e-mail, and modifications are made to existing bugs by sending an email to an address like 873518@bugs.Debian.org.
The web interface allows to browse bugs, but any addition to the bug itself will require an email client.
This sounds a bit weird in 2025, as http REST clients with Oauth access tokens for command line tools interacting with online resources are today the norm.