Re: Debian violates GPL?
On Sun, Dec 20, 1998 at 11:15:22AM -0600, Rob Browning wrote:
> cvs-buildpackage untars the tree so it can put it under CVS, so
> reconstructing the upstream tarfile does require re-tarring it. This
> means that gzip/tar differences could make the resulting tarfiles
> slightly different, though the contents should be bit-for-bit
> identical. This is a drawback, but not one I can see a good way
> around.
Yes, it is a drawback, and no, it cannot be reconstructed.
Packages containing directories, or worse, files called CVS will be horribly
munged.
Owner information is lost. Permission information may be lost.
This is not a CVS problem; it's just a problem because you're trying to use
it for something for which it is not intended.
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