David Claughton <d...@eclecticdave.com> writes:
> On 13/08/10 17:58, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Raphael Hertzog <hert...@debian.org> writes:
>>
>>> As suggested by Ian on -devel (see attachment), it would be nice to have
>>> a way to remove files during unpack of a source package to hide non-free
>>> files from our users without stripping them from the original tarball.
>>
>>> I also prefer this approach over repacking upstream files so let's
>>> implement this feature.
>>
>> I'm pretty sure ftp-master isn't going to allow source packages with
>> non-free content in the main archive regardless of whether that content is
>> hidden on unpack (I certainly wouldn't if I were them), so implementing
>> this is kind of pointless for Debian.
>>
>
> Another use-case might be to remove "convenience copies" of system
> libraries. Might be useful (e.g. for security reasons) to be able to
> guarantee that this code isn't being accidentally used by a build (in a
> way that can be easily checked by a script).
>
> Cheers,
>
> David.
And I ask again: How does that differ from deleting them in
debian/rules?
Legally that should be the same. And practically you would have the
useless files on the initial source unpack but they would be gone when
debian/rules is invoked the first time. dpkg-source -x could run the
clean target by default to make the files disapear directly.
MfG
Goswin
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