Hello, On Wed 12 Jun 2024 at 09:42am -07, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Bastian Blank <wa...@debian.org> writes: > >> If we need a design, then we can easily avoid the problem points. There >> is a working counter proposal open: > >> https://bblank.thinkmo.de/introducing-uploads-debian-git.html > > It requires a sufficiently reproducible build for source packages. > Right now it is only known to work with the special 3.0 (gitarchive) > source format, but even that requires the latest version of this > format. No idea if it is possible to use others, like 3.0 (quilt) for > this purpose. > > This sounds like a major blocker to me. tag2upload works with the > existing representations of Debian packages in Git and with the existing > supported source package formats. Yes. A proposal that has not yet engaged with the complexities of 3.0 (quilt) is not one in which we can yet have any confidence. As we discovered building dgit, it's substantially more complex than one realises. -- Sean Whitton
