Re: Low-hanging fruits reminder for 2025-07-21, 17:00 UTC (tomorrow)

Sean Whitton <[email protected]> Tue, 22 Jul 2025 11:20:57 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.perl
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Hello,

On Mon 21 Jul 2025 at 11:31pm +02, gregor herrmann wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Jul 2025 15:57:51 +0100, Sean Whitton wrote:
>
>>On Mon 21 Jul 2025 at 12:00am +01, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
>>>  * dgit experience exchange / tutorial
>>Maybe this should be tag2upload experiences, now? :)
>
> I'm a bit concerned about the missing pristine-tar integration. From my
> understanding (which might be wrong) the following could happen:
>
> - Person A imports a new upstream release (as a tarball from the    CPAN) and
>  uploads the package with tag2upload.
> - tag2upload in this case creates an *.orig.tar.gz not from the
>   pristine-tar branch but with git-deborig from one or another    upstream
>  tag.
> - Person B wants to upload a -2 revison and doesn't use tag2upload.    In this
>   case their build system will generate an *.orig.tar.gz from    the
>  pristine-tar branch and include its checksum in *.dsc file.
> - And boom!, dak will reject the upload because different checksums.

Yes, I think you're right, that could be a problem indeed.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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