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

[Bhaskar Chowdhury]

On 17:54 Sat 06 May 2023, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sat, May 6, 2023 at 3:47 PM Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@xxxxxxxxx> 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.
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Thanks,
Bhaskar

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