Scripsit A Mennucc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> debianizer - isn't there a debian/rules way to do this now?
> no way at all
Yes way. Look up the documentation of 'debian/rules get-orig-source'
in policy.
> suppose that I do this:
> $ tar xjf MPlayer-1.0pre6.tar.bz2
> $ mv MPlayer-1.0pre6 mplayer-1.0pre6
> $ tar czf mplayer_1.0pre6.orig.tar.gz
> at this point I am dead:
Doctor, it hurts when I do this? Then don't do that. There are no a
priori restrictions on what kind of rearrangement and deletion code
you can put in the get-orig-source target. An rm command is fully
allowed.
> when I looked in it 2 years ago, I saw that many files did not have proper
> copyright statements in them. Since I am not packaging anything from
> TOOLS, I took the radical step to delete them
Ideally, repackaged source should only omit subsystems that we have a
good reason to omit. Too radical deletion is a disservice to users who
use the Debian sources to build things and who might have a use for
those things. If they are in the upstream sources and free enough for
us to ship in the source package, we should ship them in the source
package.
--
Henning Makholm "Logic is a system for talking about
propositions that can be true or false, or at least enjoy
properties that are generalized versions of truth and falsehood."
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