linux-kernel - Re: Debian package build from upstream source need git repo?? Failing...

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Message-ID: <ZFb5IuPkyu1l+XNs@debian>
Date:   Sun, 7 May 2023 06:34:34 +0530
From:   Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@...il.com>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     LinuxKernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: Debian package build from upstream source need git repo??
 Failing...

On 17:54 Sat 06 May 2023, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>On Sat, May 6, 2023 at 3:47 PM Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@...il.com> wrote:
>>>
>>   I can vividly remember that it was working fine few months back...in fact
>>   building the 6.2.2 kernel. I am certainly missing the updated information of
>>   change. The damn script just untar the tarball and build.
>
>Yes, please just use git if you build packages.
>
>We've been using git for almost 20 years now, it's become the most
>widely used SCM in the world, it's time you just laid tar-balls to
>rest as a way to distribute kernel sources.
>
>                   Linus
Sure thing. Thanks for the heads up...will follow.
--
Thanks,
Bhaskar

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