On 2025-12-24 10:18:25, Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello, > > On Wed 24 Dec 2025 at 07:11am +01, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > On 23/12/25 at 11:41 -0800, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > > The discussion about generalizing those fields could move into a > > debian-policy bug. > > > > However, it might be worth experimenting a bit to understand if it's > > really useful. One could build a git->dsc audit service by doing: > > - for a given dsc, use the Vcs-Git field and clone the repository > > - identify the relevant tag for the version to check (using > > debian/gbp.conf's debian-tag option if it exists) > > - build the source > > - compare with what is in the archive > > > > I wonder how many packages could already be checked like that, and how > > many more an additional dsc field would add. > > Interesting. I would be interested to read the results of a survey like > that.
Just thinking outloud, and note I am definitely not up-to-date with the whole discussions around tag2upload, but: wouldn't all packages using git-buildpackage (and doing it correctly) pass this test? I am somewhat sure all my packages (few, to be clear) do so. regards, iustin
