On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 10:34:35PM +0200, Sylvain LE GALL wrote: > On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 05:01:53PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: > > Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > But, I can't understand your point: is it a problem to keep tarballs > > > there? They need not so much space and they are not going to be included > > > in the debian package, so what's the matter? > > > > My point is that we can find them as is elsewhere, and even mirrored > > sometimes. If the tarball is different from the pristine tarball, > > I'd better add a script which builds the new tarball from the old one. > > But you do as you like.
> - no tarball. For example, there is no tarball of mldonkey ( ;-> ). I > need to do the right cvs commit to get it... Another case where submitting the orig tar ball to a version control system is the ocaml-tools package which contains different upstream sources of the same time. However, I agree with Jérôme that in most cases there is no need for uploading the tar ball. Can't we decide this question case by case ? -Ralf. --
