recreating historic packages (was: Introductory mail)

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Stefano Zacchiroli <zack at debian.org> [2008.09.30.0932 +0200]:
> Hence, I see no need of versioning the patch series. Having just
> the last series, most likely in the Debian source package, would
> be enough.

I always thought the point of tagging commits in the VCS was to be
able to recreate pristine Debian source packages, no? Why do we
bother tagging packages debian/1.0-1 if the tag cannot be used to
actually obtain the tree that was used to build the package?

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