* Andrey Rakhmatullin <w...@debian.org> [241128 11:06]: > On Thu, Nov 28, 2024 at 10:49:09AM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: > > > > 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. > > > Who cares? gbp export-orig takes care of it, unless you need to actually > > > upload it to the archive.
Just make sure to never use the upstream tarball then, given it won't contain the same files. In your case where you don't start with the upstream tarball it's -probably- fine, as long as nobody then ventures into "use uscan"-land. > > Often I want to upload it to the archive, that's quite typical in > > teams: A uploads -1 and B uploads -2 with a bugfix or whatever. > > The hypothetical change in the tools to silently download the tarball from > the archive will make this easy. Obviously these hyptothetical tools will also deal with all previously uploaded versions correctly. SCNR, Chris
