Re: request for Technical Committee ruling on Bug #109436
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 10:43:31AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> >>"Guy" == Guy Maor <maor@debian.org> writes:
> Guy> I agree with the archive maintainers. No deb or diff.gz is allowed to
> Guy> change without a filename change. Why should the orig.tar.gz be
> Guy> different? A mirroring scheme could depend on this behavior.
> Because we control the deb and the diff, but we do not control
> the pristine upstream sources, which may have well known
> cryptographic signatures on them outside the scope of Debian to
> affect.
If we didn't control the "pristine upstream source" this wouldn't be an
issue, as Branden wouldn't have been able to remove the non-DFSG-free
components from the tarball. But he was able to, and thus does have
control over the "upstream source" (which isn't "pristine" per se anyway).
Cheers,
aj
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