Re: O: Gnus -- A versatile News and mailing list reader for Emacsen.
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- Subject: Re: O: Gnus -- A versatile News and mailing list reader for Emacsen.
- From: Marc Haber <mh+debian-devel@zugschlus.de>
- Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 16:32:27 +0200
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On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 21:42:46 -0700, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
wrote:
>At a guess: He doesn't mean ship the pristine upstream, he means to ship
>a shell script that derives the Debian .orig.tar.gz from a pristine copy
>of upstream obtained separately so that the process is reproducible. This
>lets others confirm the heritage of what's in Debian by checking over the
>transformation, grabbing the upstream distribution, applying the
>transformation themselves, and making sure they get back the same thing.
Right. Sorry for not making myself clear.
Greetings
Marc
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