Bug#466550: Please clarify the get-orig-source target stated in Policy 4.9

2009-03-09 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Ben Finney dijo [Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 07:06:58PM +1100]: Practice is, I think, changing recently in response to the flowering of distributed VCSen. Increasingly many packages are now available from upstream *only* as a VCS branch; no static tarball releases are available. Yet we must provide a

Bug#466550: Please clarify the get-orig-source target stated in Policy 4.9

2009-03-05 Thread Ben Finney
On 21-Feb-2008, Manoj Srivastava wrote: the question now is whether this directive actually makes sense as policy at this point. It obviously does not reflect common practice, since the common practice is not to implement this target. Practice is, I think, changing recently in response

Bug#466550: Please clarify the get-orig-source target stated in Policy 4.9

2009-03-05 Thread Ben Finney
package debian-policy tags 466550 + patch thanks On 19-Feb-2008, Andres Mejia wrote: When considering the phrase in policy ...does any necessary rearrangement to turn it into the original source tar file format..., it makes more sense when it refers to the original source tar file of the

Bug#466550: Please clarify the get-orig-source target stated in Policy 4.9

2008-02-21 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:01:18 -0500, Andres Mejia [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I would like to add what Russ Allbery wrote. On Tuesday 19 February 2008 1:47:25 am Russ Allbery wrote: . . . Personally, I've always read it has emphasizing an entirely different part than what people are talking

Bug#466550: Please clarify the get-orig-source target stated in Policy 4.9

2008-02-19 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.7.3.0 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear policy team, recently the get-orig-source target of debian/rules has been discussed on the debian-mentors list (see the threads starting with [1] and [2]). It seems the

Bug#466550: Please clarify the get-orig-source target stated in Policy 4.9

2008-02-19 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, Perhaps the following elaborate statement can be condensed (once sufficient cooling has occurred :-)) 1. Once pkg_ver.orig.tar.gz enters the Debian archive this is considered the authoritative Debian version from which all the binary Debian packages will be built (for that version of the

Bug#466550: Please clarify the get-orig-source target stated in Policy 4.9

2008-02-19 Thread Andres Mejia
I would like to add what Russ Allbery wrote. On Tuesday 19 February 2008 1:47:25 am Russ Allbery wrote: . . . Personally, I've always read it has emphasizing an entirely different part than what people are talking about here. Rather than focusing on the current version bit, I always focused

Bug#466550: Please clarify the get-orig-source target stated in Policy 4.9

2008-02-19 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Dienstag, den 19.02.2008, 15:16 +0100 schrieb Alexander Schmehl: Package: debian-policy Version: 3.7.3.0 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear policy team, recently the get-orig-source target of debian/rules has been discussed on the

Bug#466550: Please clarify the get-orig-source target stated in Policy 4.9

2008-02-19 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Daniel Leidert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080219 18:11]: That should be done by uscan invoking debian/rules get-orig-source as suggested several times. Thanks for your input, but the question of this supthread is not How but What ;) And last questions: Where should tools used in