Re: Consensus Call: Git Packaging Round 1

[Andrej Shadura <andrew@shadura.me>]

Hi,

Not replying to your email at all, but it has reminded me of something
I wanted to state, which, while tangentially related to the topic, is
connected to other Git-related work currently happening in Debian.

I noticed some people [citation needed] think it is not important to
preserve pristine upstream tarballs with the move to Git, and it’s
okay to regenerate them from a Git branch without trying to preserve
checksums of the tarballs upstream has somehow generated.

I disagree with that point of view, and I think it is important to
keep them, not only for Debian, but even more so for Debian’s
downstreams.

I understand that’s not everyone’s opinion, and I’m open to
well-versed and technically sound attempts to convince me it’s
something we don’t necessarily want to do.

I just had an impression this is not being considered and sort of
assumed a consensus that we won’t keep them in Git when we move to
git-debpush workflows. Let’s discuss it instead of have people
assuming things potentially incorrect :)

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Cheers,
  Andrej