Re: tag2upload's support of pristine-tar missing and potential regression in upstream signature verification (Re: Include git commit id and git tree id in *.changes files when uploading?)

[Marco d'Itri]

On Dec 19, Otto Kekäläinen <o...@debian.org> wrote:

I know your end goal is to stop using tarballs completely and just
import git commits directly from upstream, but I think we still need

Which I fully support, BTW.

to retain real original .orig.tar.gz tarballs for a some years more
until 100% of upstreams use git and 100% of Debian packaging git
repositories have the debian/latest branch on top of a real upstream
release branch so Debian changes can be diffed in relation to upstream
release commits.

Since this will never happen, it is just another way to argue for "we will never stop using tar archives".

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ciao,
Marco

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