Re: packaging: prefer git archives to upstream archives for Source

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On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 10:48:59AM -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 31 2025 at 10:53:54 AM +00:00:00, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
> <zbyszek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > This is only "SHOULD", because sometimes the git tarball is too large
> > or has other deficiencies.  Another reason is that the "upstream
> > tarball" may be signed, and that'd be preferred to the unsigned "raw"
> > archive. But those should be rare exceptions.
> 
> Hm, I agree that using a forge-generated tarball is possibly safer than
> using a GPG-signed upstream release tarball. I tried this for WebKitGTK:

OK, I guess I need to work on my English. You're the second person who
read the abovequoted part in the exact opposite way to what I intended :(

> $ git archive @ > archive.tar
> $ xz archive.tar
> 
> After a minute or so of CPU heating, the result is 1.4 GB, compared to 44 MB
> for the upstream release tarball.

That sounds like the tarballs have significantly different contents?
(On a tangent, 'git archive @ | pxz >archive.tar.xz' would be faster.)
But yeah, in general this would be one of the cases where it's reasonable
to stay with the existing approach.

Zbyszek
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