]] Pau Garcia i Quiles > It's not a matter of using a better or worse script, having dpkg, or > uupdate, or some other tool do that for us. It's a matter of > repackaging. It's a matter of altering upstream's package for (IMHO) > no good reason. It's a matter of breaking user confidence: users are > no longer able to compare Debian's .orig.tar.gz with upstream's > tarball, or with Gentoo's traball, or with Fedora's tarball, etc just > because we are shipping a different source tarball.
It's customary to add +dfsg or similar when repackaging, so it's pretty clearly marked that it's not the exact same tarball as upstream's released and I believe user confusion is small. Also, I question whether people just check fingerprints instead of actually diffing the contents of the tarballs themselves. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87ipch71cw....@xoog.err.no
