On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 at 16:04:34 -0000, Marco d'Itri 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.
If there is consensus that devref is lagging behind best-practice and
actually this is fine (or preferable, or should-be-required), perhaps
someone who advocates this model could propose a replacement for devref
§6.8.8?
smcv
