Jackson: Debian’s git transition

Ian Jackson (along with Sean Whitton) has posted a manifesto and statusupdate to the effect that, since Git repositories have become thepreferred method to distribute source, that is how Debian should bedistributing its source packages.

Everyone who interacts with Debian source code should be able todo so entirely in git.

That means, more specifically:

1. All examination and edits to the source should be performed vianormal git operations.
2. Source code should be transferred and exchanged as git data, nottarballs. git should be the canonical form everywhere.
3. Upstream git histories should be re-published, traceably, as part offormal git releases published by Debian.
4. No-one should have to learn about Debian Source Packages, which arebizarre, and have been obsoleted by modern version control.

This is very ambitious, but we have come a long way!