Hi Dominik,
On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 11:49:38AM +0200, Dominik George wrote:
> >> * It only contains debian/ now.
> >
> >Do you have any reason for this?
>
> Yes, because that's what Mike originally asked for, unless I got him wrong.
I do not see any good reason for this kind of advise. Mike, could you
please confirm that you are against keeping the upstream source inside
the archive. IMHO this is against a very common gbp workflow and in
this specific case I think its definitely needed.
> >I'm missing the background knowledge to decide this so I'll leave this
> >to you. I have no idea about the motivation to pick a specific commit
> >and not any other - it would be soooo helpful if upstream would tag
> >releases.
>
> The only reason for the specific commit is that it is known to work. No more,
> no less.
How has got this knowledge and how.
> I talked with upstream about making a release, and we will do so together,
> but this will take some more weeks. There is quite some activity upstream
> right now. I understand you cannot wait any longer, so we will need to work
> without a release for now.
Fully ACK. Good to know that upstream is somehow convinced.
Thanks for your work on this
Andreas.
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