GNU Guix 1.2.0 released

Posted Nov 25, 2020 13:36 UTC (Wed) by civodul (guest, #58311)
In reply to: GNU Guix 1.2.0 released by pabs
Parent article: GNU Guix 1.2.0 released

The analogy would be: Debian stores 'debian/rules' and similar files under version control; when one clones or pulls from that repository, the checkout is not authenticated.

GNU Guix 1.2.0 released

Posted Nov 25, 2020 22:48 UTC (Wed) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) [Link] (2 responses)

> Debian stores 'debian/rules' and similar files under version control;
Well but Debian does not...

GNU Guix 1.2.0 released

Posted Nov 26, 2020 18:50 UTC (Thu) by jak90 (subscriber, #123821) [Link] (1 responses)

You're right about that, but the infrastructure would be there. Debian has VCS storage for developers on Salsa and has supported a Git-based format for source packages since 2011.
https://wiki.debian.org/GitSrc
The last question actually touches on the same point as this, although just regarding the integrity of upstream.

GNU Guix 1.2.0 released

Posted Nov 27, 2020 0:05 UTC (Fri) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

Salsa is optional and orthogonal to the Debian archive. In practice the Git-based source package format has never been used and isn't allowed in the Debian archive because the Debian ftp-masters do not want to have to review the entire git history for new packages. Another git related thing Debian has is Dgit, which is similar to Launchpad's bzr stuff in that it imports the source packages from the archive into git. It doesn't have much adoption though.

https://browse.dgit.debian.org/
https://wiki.debian.org/DgitFAQ
https://salsa.debian.org/dgit-team/dgit