Andres Mejia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What I would like to know is, what was the original purpose for the > get-orig-source target. Maybe that would clear up what the > get-orig-source target is supposed to do.
It's been in Policy from before upgrading-checklist was started and there's no mention of it in the changelog, so my guess is that you'd have to go rather far back in time to find the original discussion. Personally, I've always read it has emphasizing an entirely different part than what people are talking about here. Rather than focusing on the current version bit, I always focused on the "does any necessary rearrangement to turn it into the original source tar file format described below" bit. I provide this target only for my packages that require repackaging of the upstream source as a way of automating that repackaging. It's a weird target in various respects. For example, should you declare the programs it needs in Build-Depends? I don't think so, and it would feel weird to me to do so, but as a result I use software in get-orig-source for which there's no hint in the source package control file might be needed (wget is the most common). -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
