Andrey Rahmatullin <w...@wrar.name> writes: > On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 12:07:42PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Since the Debian archive needs the tarballs *anyway*, the small amount >> of additional work required to use the upstream release tarballs so >> that we're obviously consistent seems worth it. > FSVO small. > It's easy when the tarball is file-to-file identical with the release > tag, otherwise the workflow becomes clumsier for a benefit which is not > obvious (except for a general opinion that some unknown amount of people > benefit from this). Please see my blog post cited at the start of this thread. There is absolutely no need for the release tarball to be file-to-file identical with the release tag for this to be easy; it's trivial regardless of how different the tarball is from the release tag unless it's pathologically different (uses a completely different file layout, for example). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87ppyaxfsq....@windlord.stanford.edu
