On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 01:08:37PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 01:56:25PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote: > > > > The original tarball of this package contains a tarball > > with the same files. This seems to be an upstream > > glitch rather than a packaging one. > > You are perfectly right and I discussed this with Gregor Hermann in > advance. We decided that an MD5 sum identical orig.tar.gz is more > important and I do not consider to fix this since I do not think this is > a bug. So I'm tempted to close this (or if you insist that this is a > bug I'd in favour of tagging it wontfix). Upstream is basically dead so > I do not expect that they will release a new version but you can try > contacting them if you think that this is really important to you.
Well, it is certainly a bug even if it's not going to be fixed. If there had been an open bug stating it's a known issue, that would have saved me a little work to investigate and file this one. So I think I'd prefer that, but I don't really mind much. 'upstream wontfix' would be fine by me. An alternative would be to close this by documenting the issue in debian/README.source, which "may also include any other information that would be helpful to someone modifying the source package" (policy 4.14). Thanks for your work, -- Niko Tyni [email protected]
