Re: legacy crap, we must all switch to dgit else we are stupid (was Re: Include git commit id and git tree id in *.changes files when uploading?_

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Subject: Re: legacy crap, we must all switch to dgit else we are stupid (was Re: Include git commit id and git tree id in *.changes files when uploading?_
From: "Jonathan Dowland" <jmtd@debian.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2026 12:24:17 +0000
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On Wed Jan 7, 2026 at 5:36 PM GMT, Salvo Tomaselli wrote:

As a user, I've always appreciated how easy and uniform it is to
interact with apt source compared to figuring out the specific project
peculiarities one encounters when dealing with unpackaged projects.

I've always appreciated that uniformity, too. I hope efforts like Ianand Sean's can provide a similar uniformity at the VCS level.


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