Jonas Smedegaard writes ("Re: Bug#901303: git-buildpackage: gbp import-orig
--uscan skips unrelated files importing repacked tarball"):
> Quoting Ian Jackson (2018-06-19 12:29:06)
> > For now I have refrained from merging this bug with #831870 but maybe
> > the gbp maintainers would like to do so.
>
> Whatever. I consider it release criticial *somewhere* that repackaging
> upstream tarballs silently mangles them in ways unintended.
Does this not cause readily-detected lossage, like failed builds ?
> But I now learned that the bug has seemingly been reported several
> times already, on several packages, and each of them lowered.
What does uscan use to do the repacking ? I doubt the bug can be in
gbp.
Ian.
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