[Pkg-fonts-devel] [Pkg-fonts-commits] [fonts-dejavu] 01/01: pristine-tar data for fonts-dejavu_2.34.orig.tar.bz2

Christian PERRIER bubulle at debian.org
Tue Aug 27 04:59:21 UTC 2013


Quoting Fabian Greffrath (fabian at greffrath.com):
> Am Montag, den 26.08.2013, 18:48 +0200 schrieb Christian PERRIER: 
> > I thik it could be acceptable if we recompress the orig file with
> > xz. I did that for most of the packages I converted to git....
> 
> Sure, why not. Though that renders pristine-tar useless.


I think it's still useful as t allows someone with just a local copy
of the git repo to build the package without needing anything else on
her machine.

So, well, not a big priority and definitely not something I would
insist on....just a way to participate to the archive size
reduction...:)


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