On 08/16/2014 03:53 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 15 Aug 2014, Steve Langasek wrote: >> The alternative is handwaving and ignoring the fact that your package >> repository is not a complete representation of your package as it exists in >> the archive. > > What's wrong with storing the upstream tarballs themselves on a separate > branch, if you're that desperate to have them inside the same git repo as > the code?
That would be a waste of space, especially for large tarballs. Even for large upstream sources storing the pristine tar delta only takes a very small amount of space compared to what is needed to store the original tarball. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de http://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53efbd19.8030...@bzed.de
