Hello List: what is the status of an orphaned package but that is waiting for an sponsor to be uploaded ?
Thanks, Jerome On 03/02/12 20:33, Michael Biebl wrote:
Hi, as this issue affects quite a few packages, I'd like to bring this up for wider discussion. The issue basically is, that the waf build system uses a python script, which embeds a bz2 tarball containing further python sources. Those are unpacked to .waf-*/ when the waf script is executed. More details can be found at [1]. A few observations/questions: * We do accept tarball-in-tarball packages. What makes this specific case different? * Where exactly is the DFSG violation? The package does ship the source code even if embedding it in the waf script doesn't make that obvious but * Would it be sufficient to document in README.source how a user can unpack and modify the waf sources (basically what [2] does) and wouldn't this fulfill the DFSG requirements? * What about packages which ship both an autotools and waf based build system and the Debian package uses the one based on autotools? Michael [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=645190 [2] http://wiki.debian.org/UnpackWaf
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