On Sunday 18 May 2008, Russ Allbery wrote: --cut-- > Isn't this already the case in practice? Do you really see many Debian > packages that have modified *.orig.tar.gz tarballs? And if so, have you > filed bugs?
Sorry for the delay, but now I saw that Don Armstrong also asked such a question, but I forgot to reply to him while having a lunch yesterday. While digging in debian source packages I have seen several such in the past, but I only remember dist now -- compare: http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/R/RA/RAM/[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/dist/dist_3.70.orig.tar.gz the rest might already been fixed now... And no, I didn't file a bugs against these, since I wanted to avoid an useless teaching of how to access the DD VCS, which I hate most. > > And when extending the source packaging format, do not throw away the > > good properties lightly. Git for example is no format to present > > modifications. It is one to present history (which is almost but not > > quite something completely different). True. > Git is quite good at presenting modifications if you know how to use it. ...and also true. -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 <people.fccf.net/danchev/key pgp.mit.edu> fingerprint 1AE7 7C66 0A26 5BFF DF22 5D55 1C57 0C89 0E4B D0AB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
