George Danchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sunday 30 April 2006 10:05, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Well, discussing it is exactly what I'm doing right now. :) Obviously >> if I can't convince anyone here, there's no point in filing a bug >> against the Developer's Reference for a change that has no consensus. > I failed to see what is wrong with the DevRef. The mentioned paragraph > about repackaged orig.tar.gz says that: > 1) repackaging <must be> be documented in README.whatever > 2) and that <it is also a good idea to provide a get-orig-source target> to > automate the repackaging process. > As far as I understand your intention is to change this to: > 1) as a "good idea" > 2) as a "must" No, I would instead say: * Repackaging must be documented in debian/copyright, and if the repackaging means that anything a user may expect to be present is missing, that must be documented in README.Debian. * A get-orig-source target must be provided if it's feasible to automate the repackaging. (There are cases where it's not, but those are generally cases involving a complex construction of different sources that would have to be documented in debian/copyright anyway since debian/copyright must contain the details of where the source was obtained.) I would remove all mention of README.Debian-source; I don't think including a separate file is ever a good idea. debian/copyright is the appropriate location for this information, in my opinion. I don't think this is any sort of huge issue, btw. I just want to be sure that I'm clearly stating what my opinion is, since people seem to keep misunderstanding what I'm saying. > Hm, I think that both 1) and 2) must be a "must" because we have > different audiencies: experienced users/developers who need and > understand the automation target, and mortal end users who are just > interested in simple words describing what has been changed and how > within the non-DFSG-compliant upstream tarball. Yes, I don't want to lose the simple discussion; in fact, I want to make it more prominent. I think repackaging is important enough to be recorded in a file that's installed in the resulting binary packages as well, in the location that's already the official Debian location for information about the upstream source. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
