Re: Keeping upstream commits separate from Debian packaging commits
Tristan Seligmann wrote:
> On 16 October 2014 18:01, Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> wrote:
>> Using pristine-tar and pulling from upstream VCS is silly. If you do
>> like this, then why not just doing tag-based packaging? That's a lot
>> safer than just re-tagging on top of what upstream does (ie: no risk to
>> introduce any difference).
>
> If you are fetching the upstream revisions / tags into your packaging
> repository, you can use the upstream tag exactly as-is, no need to
> re-tag (and indeed re-tagging would generally be a bad idea).
I think there is a lot of value to always including the Debian upstream/v1.0
tag. It provides a standard way to access the upstream version across all
repos. There is no such standard out there "in the wild". There are tags
like v1.0, 1.0, release-1.0, the-real-1.0, etc. etc.
.hc
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