• I don't undestand obscpio. So long as there are no project maintainers that do I suggest using intelligible source format. Upstream release tarballs are preferred.
• Upstream seems to have releases with versioning in the form YYYY.n I don't see why the package version cannot match upstream release.

@a_faerber, @duwe, @elvigia, @hreinecke, @lrupp, @michals, @seife, @seilerphilipp, @trenn, @tsaupe: review reminder