On Sunday 24 May 2009 18:15:25 Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > 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
You will probably want to take note of bug #466550. -- Regards, Andres -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
