Package: debian-policy Version: 4.1.0.0 Severity: wishlist Hi, when upstream tarballs need to be repacked because they contain non-dfsg free data appending '+dfsg' to the upstream version seems common practice. However some packages append '.dfsg', others use +dfsg<number> and there are more formats around.
It would be great if policy could recommend +dfsg as the default (falling back to +dfsg<number> if there was a packaging error (i.e. some files slip through and the package was rejected by ftp-masters). This would make it simpler for tools like lintian or gbp to detect repacked tarballs (in this case we don't want to attach the upstream signature to the chages file). Cheers, -- Guido -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'oldoldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.12.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages debian-policy depends on: ii libjs-sphinxdoc 1.5.6-2 debian-policy recommends no packages. Versions of packages debian-policy suggests: pn doc-base <none> -- no debconf information
