On Mar 31, Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote: > Most of this is pregenerated documentation (primarily man pages generated > from POD), but it also includes generated test data and other things. The > reason is similar: regenerating those files requires tools that may not be > present on an older system (like a mess of random Perl modules) or, in the > case of the man pages, may be old and thus produce significantly inferior > output. But we do not use older systems to build our packages, so this does not matter.
Indeed, long ago I started building inn2 from the git tree, no more tarballs... I switched long ago all my packages from tar archives to the git upstream tree. Not only this makes much easier to understand the changes in a new release, but it also makes possible packaging upstream snapshots. > Just to note, though, this means that we lose the upstream signature in > the archive. The only place the upstream signature would then live is in > Salsa. Totally worth it! -- ciao, Marco
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