recreating historic packages (was: Introductory mail)

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Stefano Zacchiroli <zack at debian.org> [2008.09.30.2104 +0200]:
> OK, my bad than, I didn't know this (rather gory) detail. I thought it
> was just a problem of not being able to create the exact
> representation (e.g., to preserve checksums of the source package), I
> didn't get that there were situations in which it wasn't possible to
> serialize to patch series at all.

Not yet at least. See Teemu's algorithm, which I have yet to check
out.

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