On Wed, Jul 04, 2018 at 10:26:20PM +0100, Sean Whitton wrote: > > Provide get-orig-source target if (and only if) uscan would fail. > > > > The previous discussion seem to show a tendency that this bug will be > > at best tagged wontfix which for the moment prevents me from calling > > reportbug right now. > > It wouldn't be an immediate wontfix because it is not just a proposal to > revert the change.
May be not immediate but I see no tendency that it has a promising chance. > An issue with this proposal is that it might suddenly make a lot of > packages buggy that don't provide this facility. I have no record of precious changes in policy but from a pure gut feeling / wild guessing this might happen with policy changes. > My suggestion to allow > README.source might be a good first step towards what you are > suggesting. My main point is that README.source is just text and no code that I can run and test. That's different from my proposal. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de