Re: 4.3/1.3 releases?

[Romain Francoise <rfrancoise () debian org>]

Michael Richardson <mcr () sandelman ca> writes:

> Why?
> I really want to be able to do:
>   git clone ...
>   dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot

> and get identical code as from apt-get.  Why would I want to make your
> life harder?

Unfortunately the packaging evolves continually with its environment:
helper scripts, dependencies, toolchain, etc. The lifecyle is just too
different from upstream's generally to make it worthwhile for Debian
developers to maintain their packaging with the upstream code.

You can still do that though--just clone from git.debian.org ;-)

-- 
Romain Francoise <rfrancoise () debian org>
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