Jonathan Carter <jcc@debian.org> writes: > 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? By comparing the set of tools required to build from git with the tools installed by Build-Depends* for common projects. I'm thinking of projects like coreutils, wget, libidn2, gnutls, gzip, etc. /Simon
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