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Re: [RFC] General Resolution to deploy tag2upload



debian@kitterman.com wrote:

>As I understand it, Debian was affected by the xz-utils hack, in part, because 
>some artifacts were inserted into an upstream tarball that were not 
>represented in the upstream git.  Please explain how use of tag2upload is 
>relevant to this scenario?  I'm afraid I don't follow.
I think that it was assumed, and I agree, that a well-maintained Debian
git source tree has the upstream branch pulled from the upstream git
repository, keeping the complete history, and not created locally by
importing upstream tar release archives.

-- 
ciao,
Marco


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