Re: tag2upload (git-debpush) service architecture - draft
- To: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
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- Subject: Re: tag2upload (git-debpush) service architecture - draft
- From: Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org>
- Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 20:31:34 +0200
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Hi Ian
On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 05:08:51PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Bastian Blank writes ("Re: tag2upload (git-debpush) service architecture - draft"):
> > The hypothetical tool creates a complete .dsc file with the names and
> > checksums of the uncompressed files. The user signed .dsc is put into
> > the tag.
> The point of the tag2upload exercise is to move the .dsc generation
> from the uploader's computer to a central service, because .dsc
> generation is complicated, slow, and inconvenient. So generating the
> .dsc on the user's system defeats the object of the exercise.
One last time: The user has to certify his upload in a way the archive
can verify.
Now it is EOD from me.
Regards,
Bastian
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