Hi,
many packages seem to contain .orig.tar.gz files which may or may not be
directly related to the files actually available from upstream. That is
unfortunate.
I think that it would make sense to add a requirement to Policy that
the .orig.tar.gz file should be an unmodified copy from
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 08:01:46 +0200, Matthias Urlichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Hi, many packages seem to contain .orig.tar.gz files which may or
may not be directly related to the files actually available from
upstream. That is unfortunate.
I think that it would make sense to add a
Hi,
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
This would be an undue burden on a number of packages.
What's undue about inserting a I created the .orig.tar.gz package by calling
'make clean_all_generated_files'. sentence in the copyright / readme /
whatever file?
That's all I'd require. Anything else would
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 18:25:37 +1000, Glenn McGrath [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
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
Hi,
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
While I admit that pristine sources are a good thing (which is
why not having pristine sources is deprecated); it is way premature
to suggest making that a policy requirement.
You might have misunderstood me. I advocate requiring either
- package pristine
I've asked the following on debian-mentors already, but didn't get an
answer yet. So I am asking the experts which I expect to be on this list
:):
I'm stuck... As I have written some days before I am trying to package
camsource - a camserv like webcam-streaming software.
As usual ;) I did not
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
Matthias Urlichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi,
many packages seem to contain .orig.tar.gz files which may or may not be
directly related to the files actually available from upstream. That is
unfortunate.
I think that it would make sense to add a requirement to Policy that
the
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 11:16:49 +0200, Matthias Urlichs
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
This would be an undue burden on a number of packages.
What's undue about inserting a I created the .orig.tar.gz package
by calling 'make clean_all_generated_files'. sentence in the
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 11:40:12 +0200, Matthias Urlichs
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
While I admit that pristine sources are a good thing (which is why
not having pristine sources is deprecated); it is way premature to
suggest making that a policy requirement.
You might
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