Wolodja Wentland <[email protected]> writes: > Is get-orig-source called by anything or is it "merely" a nice target to > have so life is easier for other maintainers and oneself when preparing > new releases?
The latter. One could replace it with a shell script, but it's a semi-standard because it's mentioned in Policy. >> Each time you regenerate the upstream tarball from the Git repository, >> it will change. You have to store pristine-tar data for one specific >> generated tarball, or someone who has only the repository won't be able >> to recreate the tarball used in Debian packaging. > Ack, and it also has the added benefit that Debian is always able to > regenerate the tarball even if upstream and all its repositories/tarballs > disappeared completely. Right. But for me it's convenience that's the biggest factor. I like being able to pull down the repository from anywhere and build a new Debian revision of the package without having to hunt down or download the original upstream tarball separately. With Subversion, I ended up checking the upstream tarballs into the repository to accomplish the same end, but of course that gets very bloated in terms of space very quickly. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
