Re: Please migrate xfsdump and xfsprogs Debian packaging to Salsa

["Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>]

On Sun, Apr 12, 2026 at 08:38:35AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi XFS Development Team,
> 
> I'm currently reviewing team-maintained packages that are not exposing
> Vcs fields.  I assume for some efficient team work you are maintaining
> 
>   xfsdump
>   xfsprogs 
> 
> in some Git repository, but the Vcs fields are not set and I could not
> find corresponding repositories on Salsa.  I'm not even sure whether you
> might have some team space there or whether the Debian team might
> sufficiently fulfill your needs.
> 
> I'd be happy if these packages could be maintained in a publicly visible
> Git repository on Salsa, with appropriate Vcs fields set.

That's more or less a matter of setting a couple of fields in
debian/control, right?

Vcs-Browser: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfsprogs-dev.git
Vcs-Git: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfsprogs-dev.git -b master

--D

> If there are specific reasons why this is currently not the case, I
> would be interested to understand them as well.
> 
> If you need any help with creating some Git repository I can happily
> do so since I have developed some training in doing this.
> 
> Thanks for your work on XFS in Debian, and best regards,
>    Andreas.
> 
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