Hi, On 27.10.19 01:20, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > I think we will need to support the source tar.gz for the forseeable > future. At very least, *deprecating* the tar.gz/tar.gz.asc format > should be independent of question we also support a format that > involves a URL to a git repoistory plus a signed git commit ID or a > signed git tag. We shouldn't forget that users may want to run their own mirrors for whatever reason they might have, and anything that cannot be expressed as "files in a directory tree referencing each other" is going to be tricky. If I wanted to make a git-based archive format, I'd probably ship bundles containing the upstream version that is being packaged plus all commits on top of that and relevant tags. That would also work as a base for modifications, because you can create a shallow clone from a bundle and work inside that. Simon
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