Re: tag2upload & orig.tar

[Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>]

Hello,

On Tue 03 Dec 2024 at 11:12am +01, Simon Josefsson wrote:

> Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> On Mon 02 Dec 2024 at 10:07pm -08, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
>>
>>> As you know I have been testing dgit and reviewing tag2upload, and to
>>> my understanding tag2upload will generate the *.orig.tar.gz tarballs
>>> using dgit
>>
>> (Using 'git deborig', not dgit.)
>
> Will tag2upload (or git-deborig) be improved to allow upload of the
> proper upstream orig.tar together with its signature?

Possibly, yes, but it's not a priority for the current design.  We're
targeting packages with git-native upstreams, where there is no such
thing as "the proper" upstream orig.tar.  E.g. GitHub upstreams with
tarballs generated by their releases page, but signed tags as primary.

-- 
Sean Whitton