recreating historic packages (was: Introductory mail)

[Stefano Zacchiroli]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:22:03PM +0200, Teemu Ikonen wrote:
> The obvious, although perhaps inelegant way to solve the storage of
> the released debian source would be to modify pristine-tar to work
> with deb-source packages and store them in a branch of their own,
> maybe called "released-deb" or similar. The storage overhead for this
> would be minimal, just the size of the compressed patches.

Actually, it doesn't look inelegant at all to me; I think it is a
quite neat idea.

My 0.02€,
Cheers.

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