Glenn McGrath, 2003-09-18 10:30:18 +0200 : > On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 02:01:25 -0500 > Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Pristine sources are already a desired, but not required, >> characteristic. There are enough brain dead upstream packaging >> practices that we can not mandate pristine sources. > > Dont go blaming "upstream" for debians problems, lots of other distro's > ship pristine sources, thats a poor excuse.
Some upstreams ship files that we are not allowed to redistribute. Or files that are non-free enough that one needs to remove them for the source package to be acceptable in Debian (main). > As far as i know, the problem is that our packaging tools cant handle > the common tar.bz2 format, or having seperate patches. Not only. Roland. -- Roland Mas Bonjour, je suis un virus de signature. Propagez-moi dans la vôtre !
