On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 14:19 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Wolodja Wentland <babilen@gmail.com> writes: > > How stable is get-orig-source across releases? > For a package where I was using a released tarball for the reasons described > above, I would dispense with this target entirely and just use uscan to > download the tarball (or acquire it some other way). And certain helpers (jh_repack) can be added to the watch file or you just work with the downloaded tarball in the get-orig-source. Is get-orig-source called by anything or is it "merely" a nice target to have so life is easier for other maintainers and oneself when preparing new releases? > > Why exactly is this needed when the tarball can be cut from upstream tags? > > Each time you regenerate the upstream tarball from the Git repository, it > will change. You have to store pristine-tar data for one specific > generated tarball, or someone who has only the repository won't be able to > recreate the tarball used in Debian packaging. Ack, and it also has the added benefit that Debian is always able to regenerate the tarball even if upstream and all its repositories/tarballs disappeared completely. Thanks Russ for your kind help and I can see much clearer now. -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland <babilen@gmail.com> : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC
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