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Re: DEP-14: renaming master to main?



Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> writes:

> there has been a lot of talk recently about how master is a loaded term
> that should be avoided.
> If I read the news correctly, github and others are going to change the
> default master branch to main.
> I don't really have any strong opinion on that matter myself.
>
> That said, what I care about is consistency and predictability across
> the archive.
> If we deem that "main" is a better term, should we change the defaults
> in salsa/gitlab and maybe update DEP-14?

Since DEP-14 already accepts naming according to release codenames,
perhaps recommending debian/sid for the main development branch would be
a better course of action?


 Best,
 Gard


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