Re: tag2upload's support of pristine-tar missing and potential regression in upstream signature verification (Re: Include git commit id and git tree id in *.changes files when uploading?)

[Marco d'Itri <md@Linux.IT>]

On Dec 19, Otto Kekäläinen <otto@debian.org> wrote:

> I know your end goal is to stop using tarballs completely and just
> import git commits directly from upstream, but I think we still need
Which I fully support, BTW.

> to retain real original .orig.tar.gz tarballs for a some years more
> until 100% of upstreams use git and 100% of Debian packaging git
> repositories have the debian/latest branch on top of a real upstream
> release branch so Debian changes can be diffed in relation to upstream
> release commits.
Since this will never happen, it is just another way to argue for "we 
will never stop using tar archives".

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ciao,
Marco

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