Hi, On Donnerstag, 10. Juli 2014, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > These files are generated, but not from the package content, but from > the dynamic Debian archive content. These files are in git to be able > to know exactly which set of packages were present in the archive at a > given moment, and which set of packages were used when the package was > uploaded. There is no way to recreate this information after the > fact, and I thus believe it would be a mistake to remove these files > from git.
there is snapshot.debian.org for this.
> As far as I know, nothing would break if we remove these files from
> git, but I advice against it.
it leads to confusion and errors....
cheers,
Holger
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