Re: Building from source required?

2008-12-07 Thread Florian Weimer
* Marco d'Itri: It is not mandatory to fully rebuild a package every time the Debian binary package is generated, and in some cases it may be impractical and undesirable, but the following issues must be considered: - the package must contain source for all components, otherwise it would

Re: Building from source required?

2008-12-07 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - the release manager (and probably the security team as well) must be comfortable with the result And the package should state *which* tool is required to rebuild the package. 8-/ This is why I mentioned the last condition, the build process should be fully automatic

Re: Building from source required?

2008-12-06 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Must packages in main derive the contents of binary packages from the sources shipped in the source package, or can they simply copy pre-generated, not directly editable files which have been derived using some other process (not available in the package sources)? I

Building from source required?

2008-12-03 Thread Florian Weimer
Must packages in main derive the contents of binary packages from the sources shipped in the source package, or can they simply copy pre-generated, not directly editable files which have been derived using some other process (not available in the package sources)? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Building from source required?

2008-12-03 Thread David Paleino
On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:27:14 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: Must packages in main derive the contents of binary packages from the sources shipped in the source package, Yes. or can they simply copy pre-generated, not directly editable files which have been derived using some other process

Re: Building from source required?

2008-12-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 7:27 PM, Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Must packages in main derive the contents of binary packages from the sources shipped in the source package, or can they simply copy pre-generated, not directly editable files which have been derived using some other

Re: Building from source required?

2008-12-03 Thread Florian Weimer
* Paul Wise: On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 7:27 PM, Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Must packages in main derive the contents of binary packages from the sources shipped in the source package, or can they simply copy pre-generated, not directly editable files which have been derived using

Re: Building from source required?

2008-12-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 7:42 PM, Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: libjs-jquery prompted this question. The files in dist/ have been processed and are not source-equivalent, and are directly copied into the binary package. Quite a common occurrence with JavaScript stuff unfortunately.

Re: Building from source required?

2008-12-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 8:29 PM, Paul Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Build the packed javascript in debian/rules using the yahoo compressor (or another). Looks like this is planned already: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=495178#10 -- bye, pabs

Re: Building from source required?

2008-12-03 Thread Raphael Geissert
Paul Wise wrote: [...] Build the packed javascript in debian/rules using the yahoo compressor (or another). That reminds me of a bug in one of the js-related packages which resulted in the switch from the compressed to the uncompressed .js due to bad compression causing errors. That's a