On Tue, 26 Nov 2024 20:49:44 +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?
Person A creates a package, person B wants to work on it; use cases: teams in general, and sponsoring within or outside of teams. As person B I don't want to go hunting for a tarball and place it in the right place, I want gbp to re-create it from the pristine-tar branch. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. https://info.comodo.priv.at -- Debian Developer https://www.debian.org : :' : OpenPGP fingerprint D1E1 316E 93A7 60A8 104D 85FA BB3A 6801 8649 AA06 `. `' Member VIBE!AT & SPI Inc. -- Supporter Free Software Foundation Europe `-
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