alt Hacker NewsYou might think, but here we are at the end of 2025 and this is still a WIP.
I don’t think it’s a bad move, but it also seems like they were getting by with patches and tarballs.
You might think, but here we are at the end of 2025 and this is still a WIP.
I don’t think it’s a bad move, but it also seems like they were getting by with patches and tarballs.
I can't find it now but I recently saw a graph of new Debian Developers joining the project over time and it has sharply declined in recent years. I was on track to becoming a Debian Developer (attended a couple DebConfs, got some packages into the archive, became a Debian Maintainer) but I ultimately burned out in large part because of how painful Debian's tooling makes everything. Michael Stapelberg's post about leaving Debian really rings true: https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2019-03-10-debian-windin...
Debian may still be "getting by" but if they don't make changes like this Git transition they will eventually stop getting by.