On sam, 2008-01-26 at 23:39 +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > I'm not sure we aren't mixing two different issues. There is the > exchange format used for source packages, and there is the question of > where DDs put all their work to generate those source packages. > > I'm less and less sure that a git-based format is a brilliant idea. I > like git more than a lot, but it's a poor idea to base source packages > on them. That doesn't mean that we shouldn't be able one day to upload a > signed git source url + sha1 signed with GPG and see DAK and other tools > git pull from there to rebuild the source package using some normalized > ways, but a source package should remain as simple as possible, using > _textual_ interfaces. > > IOW, all that you should need to grok what is in a source package > should basically be tar/ar/cpio/... and vi. [snip] > And in taht sense, wig&pen that allow you to put multiple diffs rather > than a single .diff.gz with your orig tarball is quite enough. Finally, some common sense in this thread. Thank you. -- .''`. : :' : We are debian.org. Lower your prices, surrender your code. `. `' We will add your hardware and software distinctiveness to `- our own. Resistance is futile.
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