On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 10:37:10PM +0200, Riku Voipio wrote: > This was a really usefull bit of information, thanks. Thou > get-orig-source of madwifi pulls the source to ../tarballs so some manual > work is still required. <snip> > Maybe debcheckout could run get-orig-source if only debian/ directory > appears under the checkout, or if the upstream version in debian/changelog > is equal to the one available in apt sources, pull the orig.tar.gz > there.
I consider the only duty of debcheckout is bringing Joe Random Developer to the same development environment used by the maintainer of the package being checked out. And that's what it currently does. However, if you are complaining that there is no standard way for, starting from such an environment, obtaining a fully expanded debianized source tree, then I'm with you with the complaint. In my mind that seems like what a standardized debian/rules target should account for. Many people correctly pointed out that get-orig-source is only suggested by the policy and that, as a best practice, it is recommended only when repacking is needed. Fair enough. Can we either change its meaning or add a new target which does what you are asking for? TIA, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ............... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],cs.unibo.it,debian.org} -<%>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ? /\ All one has to do is hit the (15:57:15) Bac: no, la demo scema \/ right keys at the right time
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