On Nov 27, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues <jo...@debian.org> wrote:
> If the upstream tarball is in the archive, it's probably okay to retrieve one > from there. It's not always trivial because now you need to have the right > "deb-src" lines enabled in your apt sources.list but it's possible. But how do It is trivial enough if I have deb-src configured, or else I spend 30 seconds manually downloading the file. > you collaborate with others on packages that were not uploaded to the desired > suite yet? Do you not use git for collaboration until the package has passed > NEW? I am not sure why I would need a matching .orig.tar.xz for a package which is not in the archive, but in that case if anybody needed one then they could get it along with the binary packages from the temporary directory on my web site. I do not think that you are making a great argument for pristine-tar if it boils down to such an infrequent use case. -- ciao, Marco
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