On Tue, Nov 26, 2024 at 09:25:12PM +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote: > Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org> writes: > > 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?
Maybe it runs uscan or something in that case; I confess I haven't checked. Still, as long as it's building source packages as part of the process, conceptually I prefer it having all the information in the repository rather than having to go out to an upstream site that might be unreliable. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]
