Quoting Marco d'Itri (2024-11-26 23:34:24) > On Nov 26, Jonathan Dowland <j...@debian.org> wrote: > > On Tue Nov 26, 2024 at 10:50 AM GMT, Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote: > > > Yes, as they don't enable pristine-tar > > Is pristine-tar still valuable these days? > Not really. The debian branches of all of my packages[1] are based off > the upstream git repository, which is what I also use to review new > upstream releases and generate the .orig.tar.xz file for the archive. > I could not care less if that file is not bit per bit identical to the > upstream one (the git trees have signatures), or even if it does not > contain the same files (this is usually better, so I do not need to carry > around files which we like to rebuild anyway).
If the upstream tarball is in the archive, it's probably okay to retrieve one from there. It's not always trivial because now you need to have the right "deb-src" lines enabled in your apt sources.list but it's possible. But how do you collaborate with others on packages that were not uploaded to the desired suite yet? Do you not use git for collaboration until the package has passed NEW? Thanks! cheers, josch
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