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Re: camlidl: first commit on pkg-ocaml-maint alioth project



Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org> writes:

> Originally I didn't think to keep tarballs in the repository indeed. But
> rethinking about it I realized that:
> 1) is easier for the developer who want to contribute to find the
>    tarball there and avoid looking around the web to find it
> 2) can be useful for repacking old version of packages when old upstream
>    tarballs have been removed from the web
>
> As you see is not terribly useful indeed, but ... why not?

Isn't the debian/copyright there for pointing at the upstream
tarball?

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Jérôme Marant

http://marant.org



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