Hello, On Thu 09 May 2019 at 01:23PM +01, Ian Jackson wrote: > For your workflow, I see broadly two possibilities, depending what > representation you use for upstream source code: > > (i) You use upstream tarballs as your representation of the upstream > source code, and do not use upstream git branches. > > If this is the case then the benefits for everyone in me > implementing #903392 for you, and you then using `dgit > push-source', are - frankly - limited. The resulting dgit git > branch would still contain imports of .orig tarballs, rather than > the actual upstream git history. > > The user of `dgit clone' would get your *packaging* history, > sure, but this is a much more minor benefit. A benefit not mentioned here is that it gets another class of DDs typing `dgit push-source` for their uploads. If getting all DDs typing `dgit push-source` to upload is going to be how we make source packages obsolete, that's significant. -- Sean Whitton
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