On 8/29/19 1:49 AM, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > Or if we end up moving to dgit for everything, and we don't want to > use pristine-tar (which I like, but I realize that's not an opinion > shared by everyone; some people seem to hate it
/me raises hand. I hate it. Pristine-tar forces you to have multiple branches when you may only need a single one. It's also not reliable and may easily generate different tarballs for the same tag, which defeats its purpose (and no, the workaround to remove all timestamps and order files isn't acceptable). Not only that. If upstream uses git, then I just fetch from it, and use the upstream tag as reference to run "git archive", which does the job very well. Now, you're talking about upstream using bzr or hg. These are the very few minority (and counting...). We may as well get rid of hg and bzr in Debian if it doesn't get fixed so it uses Python 3 only... (well, I guess someone will wake up and do the work, so this argument doesn't count...). Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)
