Bug#515856: [debhelper-devel] Bug#515856: debhelper: please implement dh get-orig-source

2017-12-30 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Sat, Dec 30 2017, Alexandre Detiste wrote: > Here's an example of some ugly get-orig-source: > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-games/steamcmd.git/tree/debian/rules > > Mea Culpa :-) > > > The software's version is some timestamp of a file inside a tarball: > bad; I don't really

Bug#515856: [debhelper-devel] Bug#515856: debhelper: please implement dh get-orig-source

2017-12-30 Thread Alexandre Detiste
Hi, Here's an example of some ugly get-orig-source: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-games/steamcmd.git/tree/debian/rules Mea Culpa :-) The software's version is some timestamp of a file inside a tarball: bad; I don't really want this scheme supported in uscan; better left it here only.

Bug#515856: [debhelper-devel] Bug#515856: debhelper: please implement dh get-orig-source

2017-12-30 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Fri, Dec 29 2017, Bill Allombert wrote: > This is debatable. You might underestimate the challenge involved in > building some "upstream" tarballs. Sure, I might be, but I'd really like to see an example of one of these packages. We can't hold back removing cruft from the Policy

Bug#515856: [debhelper-devel] Bug#515856: debhelper: please implement dh get-orig-source

2017-12-29 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 06:57:55PM +, Sean Whitton wrote: > control: tag -1 -patch +pending > > Hello, > > > One would need to check whether get-orig-source use uscan for repacking > > or if it only use uscan for downloading and then repack manually. > > Good point, but note that such cases

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2017-12-29 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > tag -1 -patch +pending Bug #515856 [debian-policy] remove get-orig-source Removed tag(s) patch. Bug #515856 [debian-policy] remove get-orig-source Added tag(s) pending. -- 515856: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=515856 Debian Bug Tracking System

Bug#515856: [debhelper-devel] Bug#515856: debhelper: please implement dh get-orig-source

2017-12-29 Thread Sean Whitton
control: tag -1 -patch +pending Hello, On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 01:01:19PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 12:38:49PM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 11:28:42AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > get-orig-source and watch files serve a different

Bug#515856: [debhelper-devel] Bug#515856: debhelper: please implement dh get-orig-source

2017-12-29 Thread Niels Thykier
On Mon, 18 Sep 2017 11:04:04 +0200 Holger Levsen wrote: > On Fri, Sep 01, 2017 at 06:52:27AM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > [...] > > diff --git a/policy/ch-source.rst b/policy/ch-source.rst > > index f706a13..27c49b5 100644 > > --- a/policy/ch-source.rst > > +++

Bug#515856: [debhelper-devel] Bug#515856: debhelper: please implement dh get-orig-source

2017-09-18 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 12:38:49PM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 11:28:42AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > get-orig-source and watch files serve a different purpose. > > > > get-orig-source is used to build the .orig. tarball from the true > > upstream one. Most package

Bug#515856: [debhelper-devel] Bug#515856: debhelper: please implement dh get-orig-source

2017-09-18 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 11:28:42AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > get-orig-source and watch files serve a different purpose. > > get-orig-source is used to build the .orig. tarball from the true > upstream one. Most package do not need that. Watch files could not do > that until recently. > >

Bug#515856: [debhelper-devel] Bug#515856: debhelper: please implement dh get-orig-source

2017-09-18 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Sep 01, 2017 at 06:52:27AM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > According to codesearch.d.n, get-orig-source is implemented by less than > 3000 source packages. This is not very low, but neither a high adoption > rate. It certainly makes using get-orig-source somewhat useless on a >

Bug#515856: [debhelper-devel] Bug#515856: debhelper: please implement dh get-orig-source

2017-09-18 Thread Holger Levsen
On Fri, Sep 01, 2017 at 06:52:27AM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > According to codesearch.d.n, get-orig-source is implemented by less than > 3000 source packages. This is not very low, but neither a high adoption > rate. It certainly makes using get-orig-source somewhat useless on a >