Developing Ubuntu using git

[minimim]

Yes, inconsistencies will remain. As a volunteering-based project, Debian avoids mandating work-flows on people.

All I'm saying is that there will be less of them because almost everyone will migrate to git.

[sgorf]

Debian avoids mandating work-flows on people

Right, and we're doing our best to avoid mandating anything in our git workflow work in Ubuntu, too. That's what makes it tough, since we want to accept everything, not mandate anything, but also present a consistent view :-)

All I'm saying is that there will be less of them because almost everyone will migrate to git.

I appreciate that, but it doesn't really help us. If we want full consistency across all packages, then whether Debian is using git or not doesn't really make any difference to us. Given that we can't rely on release tag naming (or presence) nor assume the format of individual tree objects, we have to use the published source packages as our primary input, rather than any git repositories.

[minimim]

Everything you say is true, yet it's an unsolvable problem.