Re: How to handle software which needs huge modification when packaging for Debian

2012-01-17 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! Am 17.01.2012 02:55, schrieb Adam Borowski: > Even binaries that don't have their sources in this package but are > shipped somewhere else in Debian are ok. Sorry, but written that way it is wrong.. Or at least could be interpreted wrong. For _everything_ Debian ships in main we must have t

Re: How to handle software which needs huge modification when packaging for Debian

2012-01-16 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 03:00:04AM +0200, Alexey Eromenko wrote: > > Is the source being repackaged for DFSG reasons? If not, ‘~dfsg’ is a > > confusing choice. > > VirtualBox src ships with binary *.exe, which are forbidden in Debian. .exe file are fine, as long as they can be rebuilt with free

Re: How to handle software which needs huge modification when packaging for Debian

2012-01-16 Thread Alexey Eromenko
> Is the source being repackaged for DFSG reasons? If not, ‘~dfsg’ is a > confusing choice. VirtualBox src ships with binary *.exe, which are forbidden in Debian. I don't know specific paragraphs of violations. But I'm just a Debian-student, not mentor (@_@) -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov"

Re: How to handle software which needs huge modification when packaging for Debian

2012-01-16 Thread Ben Finney
Alexey Eromenko writes: > Yes, you should replace inside sources, and call it ~dfsg. Is the source being repackaged for DFSG reasons? If not, ‘~dfsg’ is a confusing choice. -- \ “Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that | `\ will not admit of even the *possibil

Re: How to handle software which needs huge modification when packaging for Debian

2012-01-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 8:28 AM, Alexey Eromenko wrote: > Yes, you should replace inside sources, and call it ~dfsg. In general it should be +dfsg not ~dfsg. ~dfsg/+dfsg should only be added when repacking for DFSG-related reasons, so not in this case. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/Paul

Re: How to handle software which needs huge modification when packaging for Debian

2012-01-16 Thread Alexey Eromenko
2012/1/16 Björn Esser : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Hi there! > > How shall software be handled, when it needs > >    - huge modifactions Modify original sources in Debian. >    - scripts to be replaced by 'debianized' ones >    - to be extended by custom scripts or pr

Re: How to handle software which needs huge modification when packaging for Debian

2012-01-16 Thread Paul Wise
2012/1/17 Björn Esser: >    - huge modifactions Get those included upstream. >    - scripts to be replaced by 'debianized' ones Make those scripts generic but configurable, send the required changes upstream and drop in a second configuration file overriding the defaults. >    - to be extended

How to handle software which needs huge modification when packaging for Debian

2012-01-16 Thread Björn Esser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi there! How shall software be handled, when it needs - huge modifactions - scripts to be replaced by 'debianized' ones - to be extended by custom scripts or progs when packaging it for debian? Shall the custom / replaced stuff be pl