Re: Shishi/GSS no-symbols-control-file lintian warning

[Russ Allbery]

Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:

> Ok.  The savannah admins doesn't want me to put *.tar.gz files into CVS,
> so I presume they would have similar feelings about putting *.tar.gz
> files into Git, though.  So using the upstream source repository for the
> debian package files probably won't work out.

That's the beauty of pristine-tar.  You don't actually commit the full
.tar.gz file to Git.  You only commit just enough metadata to recreate it
from the tagged upstream tree.  It's only a checksum and an xdelta file
that's usually about 4-16KB.

> However, I can use my git.josefsson.org for this.  Or does allioth
> support git hosting?  I'm not sure if I can use it as a DM though.

Alioth does support Git hosting.  I don't recall if guest accounts can
request new projects, but I could certainly request a project, either one
for both GSS and Shishi or one for each.  Once the project is created,
guest accounts have no problem doing everything else with it.

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Russ Allbery (address@hidden)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>