s...@debian.org wrote: >Is your position here that if your upstream releases source tarballs >that intentionally differ from what's in git (notably this is true >for Autotools `make dist`), then any Good™ maintainer must generate >their own .orig.tar.* from upstream git and use those in the upload, >disregarding upstream's source tarball entirely? It is mine, and this is what I have been doing for a long time for all my packages.
Another interesting consequence of always using the upstream git tree as the Debian source is that packaging snapshots then becomes trivial. Practical examples are kmod and inn2. (I even have some automation to pull, tag and merge a new upstream snapshot.) -- ciao, Marco
