Re: gbp import-orig: how to choose compression (xz)
On Mon, 30 Jan 2023 14:00:48 +0100
Andrey Rakhmatullin <wrar@wrar.name> wrote:
> >
> > Yes, the latest upstream release (mplayer 1.5) has CVEs and fails to
> > build, so I jumped from 1.4 to 1.5+svn
> Is this a one-time thing? If so, I would just create a tarball
> manually.
I suspect this package may need to alternate unreleased version and
official releases in future
> But overall you need to make sure the SVN repo contains the
> same files as the published tarball, otherwise the compression
> difference is not the largest problem you could have.
right, I should have excluded the .svn directory from the source..
apart from that I don't think there are other relevant difference.
Is there a document that describes the right steps to follow when
importing a git or svn snapshot in Debian? I couldn't find one.
> Also, the best way is probably submitting a patch for gbp to make the
> repacked tarball compression configurable.
I doubt that I'll have the extra time for that, but it's now in my TODO
list, just in case
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