Tim Ruehsen <tim.rueh...@gmx.de> writes: > On Tuesday, December 27, 2016 1:43:36 PM CET Simon Josefsson wrote: >> Hi Tim. There is a separate git repo for libidn2's debian packaging, I >> prefer it that way. There are hundreds of linux distributions and it >> doesn't scale to support them all in upstream git repo. >> >> We can't download anything during build, that has to be changed. Debian >> policies forbids that, and it is generally a bad idea. We can include the >> files if the licenses permit. > > One more question... does Debian packaging with gbp rely on tarballs ?
I prefer to work through tarballs. gbp can work with either style. Some prefer a git-only work flow, I'm a dinasour who haven't made to leap to an all-git workflow. > If yes, we don't have to include the Unicode files into the git repo. > If no, we have to add the Unicode files to the repo (absolutely no > downloading > allowed). > > Currently, I added the files to the (my) repo. But it feels so wrong... There are a couple of ways to deal with this: 1) Add the upstream Unicode files to the git repository, and ship them in the tarball. Have code that parses them during build; alternatively, pre-generate a parsed representation of the Unicode files during a maintainer build, and let the parsed representation be used during tarball builds. 2) Don't add Unicode files to git, but have a maintainer rule (or maybe even bootstrap.conf rule) to download them. Then 1. I can't think of other approaches, but maybe there are more. I dislike downloading of files (people are not always online, and being stuck on an airplane for 10 hours without the proper external files is painful), so I prefer to put the files in git actually. Another aspect of this is to give the user full reproducible source code -- if the Unicode text files aren't included in the tarball, the user receiving the tarball cannot modify things. This is against the spirit of free software in my mind. /Simon
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