Hello, On Mon 16 Aug 2021 at 09:18AM +08, Paul Wise wrote: > I noticed that sometimes Debian's choice of upstream source for > packaging can be suboptimal. This is especially apparent for the > different per-language upstream packaging ecosystems[1], where the > upstream packaging differs from the upstream VCS in some significant > ways, including missing files, prebuilt files, embedded copies etc. > > While the upstream VCS also sometimes has these issues, it is often > much less problematic than the upstream packaging ecosystems. > > I'd like to suggest that we standardise on the upstream VCS for our > orig.tar.gz files and phase out use of upstream packaging ecosystems. I agree with this, and already do it for all or almost all of the packages I maintain. There will probably need to be lots of exceptions, however. Perhaps "recommended" in Policy? I wrote the git-deborig tool in devscripts to make it easy to generate the orig.tar files. For almost every upload I just type either 'git deborig', or for -2, 'origtargz'. -- Sean Whitton
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