Re: Modernizing the upstream tarball without version number change
On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 9:12 PM, Christoph Biedl wrote:
> disclaimer: This is a theoretical situation
Ahem.
> Assuming I took over maintainership for a package with upstream. So
> there is an upstream tarball foo_1.0.orig.tar.xz but, quite frankly,
> it's a mess. The creator didn't care about that process and so it
> contains a lot of cruft like a populated .git/, backup files, autotools
> debris, patches applied, you name it. Therefore I'd like to provide a
> clean and much smaller one, ideally one provided by upstream that was
> ignored in the past.
Get all those issues fixed upstream and release a new upstream version.
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pabs
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