Re: Simpler git workflow for packaging with upstreamless repositories
- To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
- Cc: Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>, Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Simpler git workflow for packaging with upstreamless repositories
- From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
- Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2024 10:44:48 +0800
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- In-reply-to: <20241128202940.GB603920@mit.edu> (Theodore Ts'o's message of "Thu, 28 Nov 2024 10:29:40 -1000")
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Hello,
On Thu 28 Nov 2024 at 10:29am -10, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> *) As much as possible, we want to be able to use the unmodified
> source files are officially released by upstream. Which might be a
> tarball and/or a signed git tag.
I ignore this completely, and I'm not the only one.
Even for traditionally maintained software like Emacs, Rob and I push
upstream-signed git tags to dgit.debian.org instead, and use 'git
archive' to generate a tarball to satisfy dak.
--
Sean Whitton
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