On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 9:12 PM, Christoph Biedl wrote: > disclaimer: This is a theoretical situation
Ahem. > Assuming I took over maintainership for a package with upstream. So > there is an upstream tarball foo_1.0.orig.tar.xz but, quite frankly, > it's a mess. The creator didn't care about that process and so it > contains a lot of cruft like a populated .git/, backup files, autotools > debris, patches applied, you name it. Therefore I'd like to provide a > clean and much smaller one, ideally one provided by upstream that was > ignored in the past. Get all those issues fixed upstream and release a new upstream version. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
