Manoj Srivastava <sriva...@ieee.org> writes: > On Wed, Aug 25 2010, Ian Jackson wrote: > >> Goswin von Brederlow writes ("Re: Bug#592839: dpkg-source option to remove >> files on unpack: debian/source/remove-files"): >>> That was my point. Legally we CAN use those files. But we don't WANT to >>> use them for DFSG reasons. >> >> I think we are in vigorous agreement, but your tone makes me hesitate. >> Let me summarise my understanding: >> >> File status: DFSG-free non-free but Not >> redistributable redistributable >> --------------- ---------------------- ------------------ >> >> Presence Can and Currently removed Must be removed, >> in .orig should be from .orig's by some so .orig tarball >> .tar.gz included. maintainers. I think must be repacked. >> this is a waste of >> time. >> >> Removal or May sometimes IMO necessary to Insufficient. >> inhibition be useful to prevent accidental >> by dpkg-src avoid acci- use, and to facilitate >> pattern or dental use. licence review >> rm by rules >> >> Do you agree ? In particular, do you agree that repacking .orig >> tarballs to remove non-free-but-redistributable files (such as RFCs >> and non-free-GFDL docs) is a waste of time ?
ACK. That summarizes it nicely. The "Not redistributable" is a legal problem and no amount of good will from ftp-master will change the need to repack. The "non-free but redistributable" collumn is where ftp-master has to be convinced. > Once I have written my watch file, and the urepack script, I > find that the time being wasted lies in the sub-second range. Hardly > something I worry about, really. I find the waste of time quite irelevant. Even if unpacking, delete, repack takes a few minutes for a large package you don't do that often and only once for each upstream version. And that could probably be streamlined with importing the source into a VCS and running pristine-tar. But it means the orig.tar.gz is no longer pristine. Worst case different debian derivates will each have different orig.tar.gz files because their rules of what to remove differs. I would rather have pristine tarballs across the board and different cleanup code in debian/rules. > manoj MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87tymibvkj....@frosties.localdomain