Re: [RFC] General Resolution to deploy tag2upload
On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 04:23:29PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 at 15:20:45 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > tag2upload, like dgit, ensures and insists that the git tree you are
> > uploading corresponds precisely [1] to the generated source package.
> >
> > If you base your Debian git maintainer branch on the upstream git (as
> > you should) and there is a discrepancy between the contents of the
> > upstream git branch, and the .orig.tar.gz you're using, the upload
> > will fail.
How would it fail?
> Is your position here that if your upstream releases source tarballs
> that intentionally differ from what's in git (notably this is true
> for Autotools `make dist`), then any Good™ maintainer must generate
> their own .orig.tar.* from upstream git and use those in the upload,
> disregarding upstream's source tarball entirely?
This actually means we need to get rid of orig.tar completely.
Something that does not exist can't differ.
Bastian
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