Re: Pkg-perl-cvs-commits post from legatvs@gmail.com requires approval

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Subject: Re: Pkg-perl-cvs-commits post from legatvs@gmail.com requires approval
From: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:08:34 +0800
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On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 7:14 AM, gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org> wrote:

> Why do you have the upstream source twice, once via their git repo
> and once from the tarball?

This uses pristine-tar to store the differences from the git repo to
the original upstream tarball in a way that allows you to recreate the
original upstream tarball from the git repo in a bit-exact manner.
pristine-tar is another of Joey Hess' brilliant ideas.

-- 
bye,
pabs

http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

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