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 get-orig-source specific paragraph of section 4.9 should be improved to a bit more clearly and answer some open questions, too. Basically it boils down to two or three open questions: The first one being, if get-orig-source is intendedn to fetches the most recent version of the original source upstream wise or if it should fetch the most recent version debian wise. If the later is the case and of a package has a version in experimentatl, should get-orig-source fetch the version of experimental or from unstable? And last questions: Where should tools used in get-orig-source (e.g. bzip2 or unzip to repacke a tarball) be declared? As Build-Dependency? Anywhere else? Links: 1: http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2008/02/msg00402.html 2: http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2008/02/msg00455.html Yours sincerely, Alexander -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
