Jérémy Bobbio <[email protected]> writes: > (I am mostly lurking on debian-haskell@, so I don't think that my > opinion matters much: people doing work should have the tools that they > prefer to do so.) > > On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 09:40:39PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: >> > The only countercases I can image are 1) if you aren't on the internet >> > right now; or 2) you can't afford to download the upstream tarball >> > (because it's absurdly large, like say openoffice). >> >> >> Or upstream goes away. Or is offline. Or moves. Or takes longer to >> download than it takes to generate from VCS. >> >> Seriously, it's not that hard, takes absurdly little space, is built >> into the toolset, and lets you recreate any version in history. >> >> It's not required, sure, but it's nice to have. > > A *huge* win about pristine-tar is when upstream ships non-DFSG files in > its release tarballs.
OK, *now* I see the point of it :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
