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   From: mh+debian-devel@zugschlus.de   
      
   On Tue, Feb 10, 2026 at 05:43:30PM +0000, Sean Whitton wrote:   
   >(1) The vast majority of upstreams that newcomers are likely to   
   >    encounter do not produce tarballs.  Instead, they push signed git   
   >    tags, and let GitHub/some other forge publish automatically   
   >    generated tarballs for those that want them.   
      
   Is that so?   
      
   Aren't we encouraging our newcomers not to begin with their own packages   
   but instead look for an existing package they could help maintaining?   
      
   Greetings   
   Marc   
      
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