Re: Simpler git workflow for packaging with upstreamless repositories
On Tue, Nov 26, 2024 at 08:49:44PM +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> If you haven't made an upload, then wouldn't you have the tarball
> locally while working on preparing the upload?
>
> And if someone doesn't have the orig.tar.gz locally, then why would
> anyone want to get it from a random git repository, rather than fetching
> it from the Debian archive or from upstream's release page? What is the
> use-case here that am I missing?
CI for a new-upstream-release commit you've pushed but haven't uploaded
to the Debian archive yet, because you're waiting for CI.
pristine-tar certainly isn't the only way here (it's true that CI could
in principle fetch it directly from upstream), but I find it much easier
than the alternatives.
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Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwatson@debian.org]
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