Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> writes: > However, I don't think this helps with the original problem on the > thread where upstream uses only a VCS. I think that's a bad idea, > but some upstreams do it, and right now uscan doesn't handle that > sort of case (and it's rather outside its current purpose).
Note that even if all upstreams agreed with you that releasing tarballs is a good idea, we still have the problem that some fixes or newer code is not *yet* available as a tarball. Getting the code from a VCS isn't necessarily because the upstream follows bad policy, but might be done merely because they're slower making a new version tarball than we might like. -- \ “One thing vampire children have to be taught early on is, | `\ don't run with a wooden stake.” —Jack Handey | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
