On Sun, May 31, 2026 at 07:41:43AM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: > Santiago Vila <[email protected]> writes: > > Beware with debian/.gitignore. Packages having such file are not > > "source-reproducible", i.e. "apt-get source package" followed by > > "dpkg-buildpackage -S" may result in a source package which is > > different than the original one in the archive. > > That would be solved by removing debian/.gitignore from git, right?
Yes. > The file is incompatible with tag2upload quilt=unapplied, which is how I > prefer to use tag2upload. I see no strong reason for having a > debian/.gitignore at all these days. I see mild reasons for not having > the file, because it breaks source package reproducibility. I'd like > this to be the default Go team style, and for us to care about > binary/source reproducibility generally. Thank you :-)
