On 12 May 2010 16:26, Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> wrote: > Le Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:14:40AM -0700, Shaun Jackman a écrit : >> On 11 May 2010 22:01, Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> wrote: >> ... >> > Please consider adding a ‘pristine-tar’ branch if it is easy for you. >> > http://wiki.debian.org/PackagingWithGit#pristine-tar >> >> Since the pristine tar can be downloaded from either the upstream site >> or from ftp.debian.org, it seems redundant to be able to rebuild the >> pristine tar from version control as well. What's the purpose? > > Hi Shaun, > > the purpose is offline work. > > With a git repository like the one you prepared, one can create a full source > package, since it contains the upstream sources, but there is a problem: > unless > both the upstream and Debian developers pass the --no-name option to gzip (and > use the same compression level), the md5 sum of the orig.tar.gz file will not > be the same as the one of the tarball distributed upstream, since gzip > includes > some timestamp information (I admit it is not obvious that --no-name also > implies no timestamp). And if the md5sum of the orig.tar.gz changes but not > its > version number, the upload will be automatically rejected. With the > pristine-tar system, if one creates a source package from a git repository, it > will be uploadable to Debian without headaches. > > This said, this is not a vital issue :) > > Have a nice day,
Thanks for the explanation, Charles. It won't be a priority for me, but if I find the time I will. Cheers, Shaun -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-med-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktikxojjwylkv4f-wndi_bqon7zzl2x_gq9oxy...@mail.gmail.com
