Hello, On Sun 16 Jun 2024 at 11:45pm +02, Salvo Tomaselli wrote:
>> So why would we want to use the tarball instead of the tag? > > Because it's easier to download? It is certainly faster. > > I think you assume that 100% of the software is identical to the things you > work on. Which is probably untrue. Right, this sort of thing is why tag2upload is intended to be an additional option for uploads, never mandatory, because it doesn't suit every package, upstream or Debian maintainer. It does suit many packages better than tarball-based workflows do, but not all of them. -- Sean Whitton
