On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 09:47:09PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > dgit manipulates _source trees_ in git. The .dsc is not represented > directly in git (and in general cannot be regenerated from git because > there may be missing origs etc., and also there may be deviations in > behaviour of tools like dpkg-source). dgit may need to construct a > source package, in which case the intent is that in similar > circumstances dgit will produce .dscs which are semantically > equivalent. I don't think it's necessary to generate an identical > .dsc, because actual builds take (or can take) a source directory tree > as input, not a .dsc; and an "appropriate" .dsc by this definition > implies the same source tree (which is a property dgit does check - at > least, as far as the local dpkg-source is concerned).
Not directly relevant, but there are some comments regarding 100% reproducible builds of source packages in #756978. -- Sean Whitton
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