On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Andreas Tille <andr...@an3as.eu> wrote:
> I just accept your opinion that repackaging is not warranted and I did > not in the past - but I was never really sure whether this is really > reasonable. I'm somehow missing *clear* rules when to rebuild the orig > tarball and when not. My rule is: when there is something non-free or when the amount of useless stuff is huge. For example I would repack a tarball with a small program and 20Mb of embedded code copies of all its dependencies to remove the deps. > I understand the requirement to build a package "twice in a row" as it > was discussed here[1] (including link to policy) that the removal of > those files is not OK. Eh? Rebuilding twice in a row would remove the files, regenerate them, remove them, regenerate them. I can't see how the second regeneration would fail if the first one did not. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- 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/AANLkTinJ7+4Z6yX=mvfbp+gxthxcvbbxjrlqkbjs5...@mail.gmail.com
