On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:04:13AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Stefano Zacchiroli [2009.05.10.1616 +0200]:
> > I _think_ that Manoj's point was more about the fact that
> > re-creating the auto* files are not (necessarily) part of the
> > trust relationship that users put into the
On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 10:02 +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach James Westby [2009.05.10.1523 +0200]:
> > With current practices there is effectively a "Debian upstream" branch
> > from the VCS, which contains thes history of the tarballs that made up
> > the source packages.
> >
> > Even
also sprach Stefano Zacchiroli [2009.05.10.1616 +0200]:
> I _think_ that Manoj's point was more about the fact that
> re-creating the auto* files are not (necessarily) part of the
> trust relationship that users put into the pristine-ness of
> upstream tarball.
I am not sure I parse you correctly
also sprach James Westby [2009.05.10.1523 +0200]:
> With current practices there is effectively a "Debian upstream" branch
> from the VCS, which contains thes history of the tarballs that made up
> the source packages.
>
> Even when building from a VCS it is possible, and I would say
> encourage
