On 2014-09-30 12:07:23 -0400 (-0400), Barry Warsaw wrote: > We had a discussion about this at the recently concluded Debian > conference. There are folks who only want to use git tags as the > consumption point for Debian packages, but this opinion was not > the majority opinion.
Good to know. The Debian Developer packaging the majority of the projects I work on must be in that minority. > There's no guarantee that what you get from a tagged upstream > source revision will match what comes in the sdist tarball. [...] Indeed, we've implemented quite a few workarounds specifically requested by distro packagers who want to be able to ignore our tarballs and use their own tools/workflow to generate them without ever even running sdist. It seems backwards to me, but I'm not the one doing their packaging work. > Thus, in the Debian Python team our policy is that if upstream produces > tarballs (as is the case for the vast majority of our packages, which are > sourced from PyPI), then we want the Debian package to use tarballs. [...] Refreshing to hear! -- Jeremy Stanley _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
