From: spwhitton@spwhitton.name 
  
 Hello, 
  
 On Sat 20 Sep 2025 at 05:05pm +01, Ian Jackson wrote: 
  
 > pAndrew Bower writes ("Bug#1115852: git-debpush: retain upstream tag for 
 post 
 > hoc verification"): 
 >> It would be nice if the shallow git clone (*.git.tag.xz) retained 
 >> the signature of upstream tags as it does the signature for the 
 >> debian tag in order to allow the provenance of the upstream code to 
 >> be verified after upload. 
 > 
 > Hi.  Thanks for your interest.  We agree with your objectives. 
 > 
 > I think this is more or less a duplicate of #1110269 "tag2upload (and 
 > dgit?) should deposit upstream tags".  Since we (the dgit team) think 
 > that git is primary, we think this should be recorded as git objects. 
 > I'm pretty sure we don't want to extend the .git.tar.xz thing which 
 > exists only because of our political compromise with ftpmaster. 
  
 I very much agree, let's not extend the .git.tar.xz, let's fix that 
 other bug. 
  
 -- 
 Sean Whitton 
  
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