Re: Validating tarballs against git repositories

[Gioele Barabucci <gioele@svario.it>]

On 30/03/24 13:38, Jonathan Carter wrote:
> On 2024/03/30 11:05, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> > > 1. Move towards allowing, and then favoring, git-tags over source 
> > > tarballs
>  >
> > Some people have suggested this before -- and I have considered adopting
> > that approach myself, but one thing that is often overlooked is that
> > building from git usually increase the Build-Depends quite a lot
> > compared to building from tarball
>
> How in the world do you jump to that conclusion?

Usually it's due to thing like precompiled documentation: 
{man,info}pages, HTML pages.

To generate these files you usually need texinfo, groff, pandoc, sphinx, 
etc. All big packages with plenty of runtime and build-time dependencies.

But as I said, for cases like arch rebootstraps, <nodoc> can remove the 
need to bootstrap a long (and often circular) chain of dependencies.

Regards,

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Gioele Barabucci