Re: Standardizing the layout of git packaging repositories
On Fri, 15 Aug 2014, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Aug 15, Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote:
> > The alternative is handwaving and ignoring the fact that your package
> > repository is not a complete representation of your package as it exists in
> > the archive.
>
> It is not obvious why this would be a problem.
Because you're a Debian Developer and might want to upload a package to
the archive without downloading the uploaded tarball which substantially
duplicates what you have in your source tree? Or you're collaborating
with someone and need to use a repacked tarball?
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