recreating historic packages (was: Introductory mail)

[Stefano Zacchiroli]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:42:37AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> > who cares if you won't be able to recreate the exactly same
> > package?
> Because the topgit branches you used to create the stable package
> cannot be used anymore to create the patches that went into the
> stable package.

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.

Cheers.

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