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Re: Discussion on eventual transition away from source packages



Hello,

On Fri 22 Mar 2019 at 09:32AM +01, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:

> On 21/03/19 at 18:57 +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
>> Also, it will be a drastical change and has many far reaching
>> consequences and needs lots of work nefore we are near it.
>
> I'm probably missing something, but it doesn't sound like a lot of work
> to me? It's "just" a service that:
> - gets notified of the existence of a git repo + tag to upload
> - fetches that git repo + tag
> - checks signature / confirm that the GPG key owner is allowed to upload
>   that package
> - build a Debian source package
> - uses a slightly different path to accept the source package (because
>   the .dsc and .changes wouldn't be signed)

The problem is converting the git tree into a source package.

The thousands of lines of code in dgit are a response to how hard it is
to do that in sufficient generality (not full generality -- not even
dgit does that).

-- 
Sean Whitton

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