2015-05-27 11:28 GMT+01:00 Ghislain Vaillant <[email protected]>: > Dear all, > > I have a package (ArrayFire) which provides some of its components via git > submodules (3 submodules: assets, gtest and test data). Those aren't > required for building the library but are necessary for building the > documentation and running the test suite. The tagged tarballs released on > Github do not contain these as a result. > > Could you guys point me to the appropriate things to do here. First, I > have provided a get-orig-source rule for fetching the submodules and > creating a new tarball with the additional content. Since this tarball now > differs from the Github one, does it need to be suffixed ? If yes, with > what ? +dfsg, +repack ? > > For the test suite, do I need to patch the build system so it uses > Debian's gtest instead of the one from the submodule ? > > Thanks for your help. > > Ghis >
Upstream seems to be willing to provide a release tarball with the full content of the submodules in a future release. Please disregard this post as a result. Cheers, Ghis
