On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 08:11:28AM +0100, Salvo Tomaselli wrote:
> Please don't do that.
> 
> If you repack I have no idea if you have put a malware in there, and I need 
> to 
> diff the tarfiles' content just to see what you have done. Which I don't want 
> to 
> do.

I did find it odd that the primary maintainer appears to have been
repackinging the last few releases only to change the compression
format, but I was trying to keep with their established workflow.

I've now resubmitted the package, but using the upstream tarball
verbatim.

> 
> I'd accept sponsoring a repacked file only to remove some non-free files from 
> the archive, so that it can be uploadable in Debian, but no other reason.
> 
> Can you reupload without repacking?
> 
> 
> -- 
> Salvo Tomaselli
> 
> "Io non mi sento obbligato a credere che lo stesso Dio che ci ha dotato di
> senso, ragione ed intelletto intendesse che noi ne facessimo a meno."
>                 -- Galileo Galilei
> 
> https://ltworf.codeberg.page/



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