(I am mostly lurking on debian-haskell@, so I don't think that my opinion matters much: people doing work should have the tools that they prefer to do so.) On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 09:40:39PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > > The only countercases I can image are 1) if you aren't on the internet > > right now; or 2) you can't afford to download the upstream tarball > > (because it's absurdly large, like say openoffice). > > > Or upstream goes away. Or is offline. Or moves. Or takes longer to > download than it takes to generate from VCS. > > Seriously, it's not that hard, takes absurdly little space, is built > into the toolset, and lets you recreate any version in history. > > It's not required, sure, but it's nice to have. A *huge* win about pristine-tar is when upstream ships non-DFSG files in its release tarballs. Rebuilding a stripped tarball is really easy using git and pristine-tar, and it's easily to continue to do so when upstream realeses new versions. And non-DFSG documentation is not that uncommon… Cheers, -- Jérémy Bobbio .''`. lunar@debian.org : :Ⓐ : # apt-get install anarchism `. `'` `-
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