Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org> writes: > 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.
I often wait for CI before making an upload of a new upstream release, even without pristine-tar, and Salsa CI hasn't had trouble automatically finding a orig.tar.gz to work with for me. So maybe there is some additional assumption for your situation? /Simon
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