At 2024-03-30T14:38:03+0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: > On 2024/03/30 11:05, Simon Josefsson wrote: > > > 1. Move towards allowing, and then favoring, git-tags over source tarballs > > > > Some people have suggested this before -- and I have considered > > adopting that approach myself, but one thing that is often > > overlooked is that building from git usually increase the > > Build-Depends quite a lot compared to building from tarball > > How in the world do you jump to that conclusion?
I don't know about "usually", but "often" seems fair enough; it's true of groff. https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/tree/INSTALL.REPO?h=1.23.0#n15 Regards, Branden
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