On Tue, Nov 26, 2024 at 06:53:01PM +0100, Mechtilde Stehmann wrote: > > One possible rebuttal to this is "gbp needs to do the right thing then". > > Currently gbp by default generates a broken tarball, which is also a > > source of confusion for many. > > Do you have a bug report number?
No. I've found #902249 which is titled "Pull tarballs from the archive (or upstream location)", maybe that's the one you think about. I haven't read it, except for the "I hoped we could stay out of that business in 2018 but since tarballs are still _the_ _thing_ in Debian" line, which I liked. For the avoidance of doubt, I don't think gbp *can* do the right thing there. It's not my rebuttal. Maybe gbp should just refuse to generate a random tarball from a commit-ish and let^Wrequire people to provide one or provide a way to generate one in a correct way. -- WBR, wRAR
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