Hello, On Sat 17 May 2025 at 12:05pm +01, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Yes. Also that git-debpush doesn't attempt to transfer pristine-tar > information via git, which is a thing the user might expect it to do. Hmm, yes, I guess they might expect that. I was thinking that pristine-tar is too weird and we are trying to be non-Debian-weird, but new users won't be thinking in tha tway. > I think people who use pristine-tar are (overwhelmingly) doing in > accordance with the doctrine that Debian should base its work on, and > redistribute, upstream tarballs. That's what pristine-tar is *for*. > So I think complaining in this situation will almost always be > correct. Okay. > The only concern I have is: what happens if you stop using (wanting to > use) pristine-tar. Does gbp tooling maintain the branch if it exists? > I mean: would you have to do something to stop it doing that, or pass > --force every time? You would have to disable pristine-tar in your gbp.conf but that's not very difficult. -- Sean Whitton
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