On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 02:14:09PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > [...] > > My understanding is that this unusual difference between the .orig > > tarball and what's in git is an attempt to "square the circle" between > > two colliding design principles: "the .orig tarball should be upstream's > > official binary artifact" (in this case Automake `make dist` output, > > including generated files like Makefile.in but not non-critical source > > files like .gitignore) and "what's in git should match upstream's git > > repository" (including .gitignore but > > not usually Makefile.in). > [...] > > Perhaps we should update policy to say that the .orig tarball may (or > even "should") be generated from an upstream release tag where > applicable. This conflicts with shipping tarball signatures.
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