On Thu, Feb 12, 2026 at 01:28:29PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
Quoting Marc Haber (2026-02-12 12:35:15)
If using the signed git tag would result in a different orig.tar.gz in
our archive then we SHOULD be sad (or improve our tools) and in the
mean time use their release tarball (while optionally keeping upstream
git history in our git).
I agree with the other cases (and thanks to spelling them all out
explicitly!), but I don't understand the above one.
Why SHOULD we we sad if upstream offers two formats and we pick one of
them without being able to recreate the other from it?
Because we would then have an orig.tar.gz in our archive that isn't
that original. I would be less unhappy if our archive would then use a
different name such as synth.tar.gz or debian-upstream.tar.gz, but I
think that hell would need to freeze over for that to happen.
Greetings
Marc
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