Hi! On Sat, 2024-04-06 at 19:13:22 +0800, Sean Whitton wrote: > On Fri 05 Apr 2024 at 01:31am +03, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > Right now the preferred form of source in Debian is an upstream-signed > > release tarball, NOT anything from git. > > The preferred form of modification is not simply up for proclamation. > Our practices, which are focused around git, make it the case that > salsa & dgit in some combination are the preferred form for modification > for most packages.
People keep bringing this up, and it keeps making no sense. I've covered this over the years in: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/03/msg00330.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2019/07/msg00180.html (There's in addition the part that Adrian covers in another reply.) Thanks, Guillem