Re: [RFC] DPT Policy: Canonise recommendation against PyPi-provided upstream source tarballs

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Subject: Re: [RFC] DPT Policy: Canonise recommendation against PyPi-provided upstream source tarballs
From: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2021 01:54:08 +0000
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On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 8:49 PM Nicholas D Steeves wrote:

> I feel like there is probably consensus against the use of PyPi-provided
> upstream source tarballs in preference for what will usually be a GitHub
> release tarball

I think this should be a Debian-wide default and documented in Debian
Policy. I plan to bring this up more widely after the bullseye
release.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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