On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 05:45:25PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > > >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? > > > > It is mine, and this is what I have been doing for a long time for all > > my packages. > > If there is consensus that devref is lagging behind best-practice and > actually this is fine (or preferable, or should-be-required), perhaps > someone who advocates this model could propose a replacement for devref > §6.8.8? I think this is one of the areas where multiple incompatible forkflow exist and there is no project consensus on many details of those workflows. -- WBR, wRAR
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