Re: Please migrate xfsdump and xfsprogs Debian packaging to Salsa

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

On Mon, Apr 13, 2026 at 12:37:20PM +0200, Carlos Maiolino wrote:
> Hi Andreas.
> 
> 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.
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> I'm not sure what Salsa is, nor what Vcs fields are, I'm assuming this
> is a Debian specific thing and I'm not that familiar with Debian
> ecosystem...
> 
> I'm assuming this is something debian-specific? Perhaps Nathan can chime
> in here, because this does not think something related to xfsprogs
> upstream development?!
> 
> I'm not the xfsprogs maintainer though, but this doesn't seem to be
> concerning with xfsprogs upstream development.

It is, in the sense that (at least at one time) the debian/ files in the
upstream master branch were used to generate the debian packages.
Nowadays there's a slight divergence every now and then for Debian to
integrate patch backports to old release.

--D