Hi, On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 11:57 AM Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote: > > source package format
While everyone is receptive to new labels, I prefer "upload format" or "archive format". Either one helps us to distinguish the intermediate product from any workflow objects a maintainer may have. > single tarball as a source package format It is also not necessary to "define" unpatched sources in the archive by how many tarballs they have, or any tarballs at all. In fact, I wrote a manifest utility that could one day replace tarball signatures with per-file hashes. The latter remain useful even when sources are repackaged, because manifests can be cryptographically daisy-chained in a "chain of custody." Of course, they would be more often used for patched upload formats. Kind regards Felix Lechner