Re: Status of dgit (good for NMUs and fast-forwarding Debian branches)

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 04:25:06PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
[...] 
> I don't understand the arguments against 3.0 (git).  For every 3.0 (quilt)
> package, you can produce a 3.0 (git) with exactly the same data (but not
> metadata[1]) bits.
> 
> It is claimed that it can smuggle some not visible data.  That's what
> prune is for.  Git goes a long way towards saving old data for recovery
> purposes, but deleting object not reachable from HEAD you ship is no
> rocket science.
[...]

Of course unreachable objects should be pruned from a 3.0 (git)
package.  But I believe the FTP team's concerns are about *reachable*
objects that may be copyright violations.  It is hard enough to check
this for one version.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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