On 07.02.2012 14:16, Ian Jackson wrote: > I compared the tarball in waf in postler 0.1.1-1.1 with the upstream > code as obtained from "git clone https://code.google.com/p/waf/". It > turns out that the tarball embedded in the "waf" script is not the > original "waf" source distribution. It contains a subset of the > files, and those files it does contain have been processed to remove > comments, whitespace, etc., much like a JavaScript minimisation. Ie > the "waf" self-extracting archive is generated out of the waf.git > source code by massaging some of the files; modified versions of the > script are supposed to be generated by editing the waf.git > distribution and rerunning its build.
The waf-unpack tagged bug reports refer to the Debian wiki with instructions how to ship the waf script in unpacked form [2]. I assume the FTP team at least considers this approach as acceptable and quite of few of the affected packages have been "fixed" this way already. Michael [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=ftpmas...@debian.org;tag=waf-unpack [2] http://wiki.debian.org/UnpackWaf [3] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=654500#25 -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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