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

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On 2021-06-25 16:42:42 -0400 (-0400), Nicholas D Steeves 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.
-- 
Jeremy Stanley

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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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