Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> writes: > while checking the section 6.7.8.2 of the Developers reference > (“Repackaged upstream source”) in the context on another thread on this > list > (http://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/d921045c2e3ae5ecfba088e9d82eb...@drazzib.com), > I found the following :
> A repackaged .orig.tar.gz > > 1. should be documented in the resulting source package. Detailed > information on how the repackaged source was obtained, and on how > this can be reproduced should be provided in debian/copyright. It > is also a good idea to provide a get-orig-source target in your > debian/rules file that repeats the process, as described in the > Policy Manual, Main building script: debian/rules. > I have no strong opinion on the subject, but I think that either the > Developers Reference should be modified to reflect current consensus and > practice, or in contrary the section 6.7.8.2 of the Dev. Ref. argues for > the incorporation of the removing information in the DEP-5 > machine-readable format. I personally still believe this information belongs in debian/copyright, not in README.source. README.source might be appropriate if there are detailed instructions required for how someone else would create a new upstream source tarball, but debian/copyright is the appropriate location to describe the provenance of the upstream tarball, which in my opinion should include a human-readable description of transformations applied to it. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
