On Saturday 29 April 2006 22:06, Russ Allbery wrote: > George Danchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Saturday 29 April 2006 21:34, Russ Allbery wrote: > >> After I've done one upload with a particular upstream source, I usually > >> just pull the upstream source out of the Debian archive so that I don't > >> have to worry about it changing. > > > > What about random users trying to build your debian source package > > ... or am I missing something here ? > > When they download the package with apt-get source, they get the > .orig.tar.gz that I used as well.
Seems I misunderstood you in the first place. In that case you do not need the optional get-orig-source target[1] in debian/rules to fetch the upstream tarballs from their canonical locations. [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-debianrules -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 <people.fccf.net/danchev/key pgp.mit.edu> fingerprint 1AE7 7C66 0A26 5BFF DF22 5D55 1C57 0C89 0E4B D0AB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

