On Tue, Nov 26, 2024 at 08:49:44PM +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote: > If you haven't made an upload, then wouldn't you have the tarball > locally while working on preparing the upload? > > And if someone doesn't have the orig.tar.gz locally, then why would > anyone want to get it from a random git repository, rather than fetching > it from the Debian archive or from upstream's release page? What is the > use-case here that am I missing?
CI for a new-upstream-release commit you've pushed but haven't uploaded to the Debian archive yet, because you're waiting for CI. pristine-tar certainly isn't the only way here (it's true that CI could in principle fetch it directly from upstream), but I find it much easier than the alternatives. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]
