Control: tag -1 + patch On Tue, 30 Nov 2021 12:08:44 +0000 Robie Basak <robie.ba...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > If I patch the debianutils source package, then I find that I cannot > easily rebuild it without the following files from Salsa VCS that are > not included in the Debian source package: > > po4a/de/translator_german.add > po4a/fr/savelog.8.fr.add > po4a/fr/translator_french.add > po4a/fr/which.1.fr.add > po4a/ja/translator_japanese.add > po4a/pl/translator_polish.add > po4a/sl/translator_slovene.add > po4a/po/de.po > po4a/po/es.po > po4a/po/fr.po > po4a/po/it.po > po4a/po/ja.po > po4a/po/pl.po > po4a/po/pt.po > po4a/po/sl.po > > Everything is fine if I rebuild the package unmodified. But the build > fails when I patch the package to run "autoreconf" because these files > are missing. > > As a result, I wouldn't consider the debianutils Debian source package > to be truly the source, contrary to my expectation that it should be. I > think this fails the spirit of the "desert island test" since someone on > a desert island with a Debian release containing all source packages > would not be able to straightforwardly modify Makefile.am, run > autoreconf and rebuild debianutils. I think the same applies to anyone > who wishes to adjust the translations. > > Please could you arrange to ship these missing files in the source > package?
I fixed the problem here: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debianutils/-/merge_requests/16 Thanks! cheers, josch
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