On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 10:43:31AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >>"Guy" == Guy Maor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Guy> I agree with the archive maintainers. No deb or diff.gz is allowed to > Guy> change without a filename change. Why should the orig.tar.gz be > Guy> different? A mirroring scheme could depend on this behavior. > Because we control the deb and the diff, but we do not control > the pristine upstream sources, which may have well known > cryptographic signatures on them outside the scope of Debian to > affect.
If we didn't control the "pristine upstream source" this wouldn't be an issue, as Branden wouldn't have been able to remove the non-DFSG-free components from the tarball. But he was able to, and thus does have control over the "upstream source" (which isn't "pristine" per se anyway). Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``_Any_ increase in interface difficulty, in exchange for a benefit you do not understand, cannot perceive, or don't care about, is too much.'' -- John S. Novak, III (The Humblest Man on the Net)
