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Re: [RFC] DPT Policy: Canonise recommendation against PyPi-provided upstream source tarballs

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On Fri, 25 Jun 2021, Jeremy Stanley wrote:

>> I feel like there is probably consensus against the use of PyPi-provided
>> upstream source tarballs in preference for what will usually be a GitHub
>> release tarball, so I made an MR to this effect (moderate recommendation
>> rather than a "must" directive):
>>
>>   https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/tools/python-modules/-/merge_requests/16
>>
>> Comments, corrections, requests for additional information, and
>> objections welcome :-)  I'm also curious if there isn't consensus by
>> this point and if it requires further discussion
>
> I work on a vast ecosystem of Python-based projects which consider
> the sdist tarballs they upload to PyPI to be their official release
> tarballs, because they encode information otherwise only available
> in revision control metadata (version information, change history,
> copyright holders). The proposal is somewhat akin to saying that a
> tarball created via `make dist` is unsuitable for packaging.
>
> "GitHub tarballs" (aside from striking me as a blatant endorsement
> of a wholly non-free software platform) lack this metadata, being
> only a copy of the file contents from source control while missing
> other relevant context Git would normally provide.

I tend to agree about PyPI being the official releases for a lot of 
projects.  "GitHub tarballs" also tend to include other undesirable stuff 
for distribution like upstream CI/CD configuration files, etc.

Scott

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[RFC] DPT Policy: Canonise recommendation against PyPi-provided  upstream source tarballs Nicholas D Steeves <sten@debian.org> - 2021-06-25 22:50 +0200
  Re: [RFC] DPT Policy: Canonise recommendation against PyPi-provided  upstream source tarballs Jeremy Stanley <fungi@yuggoth.org> - 2021-06-25 23:20 +0200
    Re: [RFC] DPT Policy: Canonise recommendation against PyPi-provided  upstream source tarballs Scott Talbert <swt@techie.net> - 2021-06-25 23:40 +0200
      Re: [RFC] DPT Policy: Canonise recommendation against PyPi-provided  upstream source tarballs Nicholas D Steeves <sten@debian.org> - 2021-06-26 00:50 +0200
    Re: [RFC] DPT Policy: Canonise recommendation against PyPi-provided  upstream source tarballs Nicholas D Steeves <sten@debian.org> - 2021-06-26 00:30 +0200
      Re: [RFC] DPT Policy: Canonise recommendation against PyPi-provided  upstream source tarballs Jeremy Stanley <fungi@yuggoth.org> - 2021-06-26 01:50 +0200
        Re: [RFC] DPT Policy: Canonise recommendation against PyPi-provided  upstream source tarballs Nicholas D Steeves <sten@debian.org> - 2021-06-26 02:10 +0200
        Re: [RFC] DPT Policy: Canonise recommendation against PyPi-provided  upstream source tarballs Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2021-06-26 04:10 +0200
          Re: [RFC] DPT Policy: Canonise recommendation against PyPi-provided  upstream source tarballs Jeremy Stanley <fungi@yuggoth.org> - 2021-06-26 06:20 +0200
          Re: [RFC] DPT Policy: Canonise recommendation against PyPi-provided  upstream source tarballs Martin <debacle@debian.org> - 2021-06-26 11:30 +0200
      Re: [RFC] DPT Policy: Canonise recommendation against PyPi-provided  upstream source tarballs Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2021-06-26 12:20 +0200
    Re: [RFC] DPT Policy: Canonise recommendation against PyPi-provided  upstream source tarballs Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2021-06-26 04:00 +0200
  Re: [RFC] DPT Policy: Canonise recommendation against PyPi-provided  upstream source tarballs Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2021-06-26 00:10 +0200
    Re: [RFC] DPT Policy: Canonise recommendation against PyPi-provided  upstream source tarballs Nicholas D Steeves <sten@debian.org> - 2021-06-26 01:10 +0200
      Re: [RFC] DPT Policy: Canonise recommendation against PyPi-provided  upstream source tarballs Jeremy Stanley <fungi@yuggoth.org> - 2021-06-26 02:00 +0200
      Re: [RFC] DPT Policy: Canonise recommendation against PyPi-provided  upstream source tarballs Brian Thompson <brian@hashvault.io> - 2021-06-26 05:50 +0200
        Re: [RFC] DPT Policy: Canonise recommendation against PyPi-provided upstream source tarballs Donald Stufft <donald@stufft.io> - 2021-06-26 06:30 +0200
  Re: [RFC] DPT Policy: Canonise recommendation against PyPi-provided  upstream source tarballs Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2021-06-26 04:00 +0200
  Re: [RFC] DPT Policy: Canonise recommendation against PyPi-provided  upstream source tarballs Louis-Philippe Véronneau <pollo@debian.org> - 2021-06-27 01:00 +0200
    Re: [RFC] DPT Policy: Canonise recommendation against PyPi-provided  upstream source tarballs Jeremy Stanley <fungi@yuggoth.org> - 2021-06-27 02:20 +0200
    Re: [RFC] DPT Policy: Canonise recommendation against PyPi-provided  upstream source tarballs Emmanuel Arias <eamanu@yaerobi.com> - 2021-06-28 04:50 +0200
      Re: [RFC] DPT Policy: Canonise recommendation against PyPi-provided  upstream source tarballs Jeremy Stanley <fungi@yuggoth.org> - 2021-06-28 18:30 +0200

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