Dear mentors I have a question about policy with respect to get-orig-source and it's use with the DFSG tarballs.
The policy 4.9 says: "This target fetches the most recent version of the original source package from a canonical archive site (via FTP or WWW, for example), does any necessary rearrangement to turn it into the original source tar file format described below, and leaves it in the current directory." Debian Reference 6.7.8.2 says: "A repackaged .orig.tar.gz. must be documented in the resulting source package. Detailed information on how the repackaged source was obtained, and on how this can be reproduced must be provided in debian/copyright. It is also a good idea to provide a get-orig-source target in your debian/rules file that repeats the process, as described in the Policy Manual, Main building script: debian/rules." So if currently the latest upstream release of sword is 1.6.0. Hence the version we are packaging is 1.6.0+dfsg-1. Now imagine our team finished packaging this version and it has landed in the stable release. Upstream by this time released 1.7.1. And our team packaged 1.7.1 and it is in unstable. So what should get-orig-source target do: 1) In both stable and unstable: Grab 1.7.1 and turn it into 1.7.1.dfsg 2) In stable: Grab 1.6.0 and turn it into 1.6.0.dfsg; in unstable grab 1.7.1 and turn it into 1.7.1.dfsg 3) Parse debian/changelog and create the tarball for the latest version listed there Cause now in our "big team" of two collaborators we have disagreement about this =D -- With best regards Dmitrijs Ledkovs (for short Dima), Ледков Дмитрий Юрьевич -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
