Ian Jackson: Adopting tag2upload and modernising your Debian packaging

Introduction

tag2upload allows authorised Debian contributors to upload to Debian simply by pushing a signed git tag to Debian’s gitlab instance, Salsa.

We have recently announced that tag2upload is, in our opinion, now very stable, and ready for general use by all Debian uploaders.

tag2upload, as part of Debian’s git transition programme, is very flexible - it needs to support a large…

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Debian's tag2upload considered stable

Sean Whitton has announced that Debian's tag2upload service is now out of beta and ready for use by Debian developers and maintainers.

During the beta we encountered only a few significant bugs. Now that we've fixed those, our rate of successful uploads is hovering around 95%. Failures are almost always due to packaging inconsistencies that older workflows don't detect, and therefore only need…

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