On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 05:40:03PM +0100, Guido Guenther wrote:
> Hi Sjoerd,
> On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 01:00:02PM +0100, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> > Attached patch adds a --git-tarball-dir option to specify such an
> > alternate
> > location
> Thanks a lot for your patch! I'm inclined to apply it as is since people
> really seem to want that functionality but did you think about storing
> the orig tarball in the VCS (using pristine-tar or a similar logic) to
> create a orig.tar.gz with an md5sum that matches the upstream one? This
> would make more sense to me.
Actually i'm just one of those people not getting the point of having the
upstream code in our own repository..
I could see some uses for having a debian branch of upstream in which you have
the same patches you apply to your deb.. But i don't see the need of having the
upstream and debian branch mixed (Year and years of svn-buildpackage usage
showed me that it's never actually necessary).
For the suggestion to recreate original tarballs.. I usually find this somewhat
of a hack and the work of downloading the tarballs is automated with uscan
anyways. Also for pkg-pulseaudio (which uses git), most of the packaging work
is done by someone whom i sponsor. And while i trust him to do the right thing,
i don't want to have to double-check that the tarballs he is importing into git
are actually the same as upstreams :)
Sjoerd
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