On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 08:39:35AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > People could just move to native packages if they do that: that also > > works for changes to binary files, no longer requires synthesizing > > patches and thus brings the Debian source package closer to the Git > > state. This is also easier to compare to maintainers' repository. > > Sure, we could tell people to use 3.0 (native) for everything with Debian > changes to the upstream source and stop trying to use 3.0 (quilt). You're > not the first person to make that suggestion, and it has some real merit > for simplicity of representation of source packages. But that means that > we now can't share the .orig.tar.gz file between Debian package releases, > which has implications for the size of the archive. It was actually suggested on #d-d on Apr 16 that having orig sources for all uploads is maybe not a problem for the archive at all. Though there the context was building separate orig.tar for all packages, not switching to 3.0 (native), and the problem it was going to solve is pristine-tar. -- WBR, wRAR
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