>>>>> " " == tony mancill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 7 Jan 2001, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
>> The orig.tar.gz file should be pristine (does someone have the
>> pointer to the policiy about this?). Basically NEVER rebuild
>> it.
>>
>> It should be the original file downloaded from the upstream
>> author without any changes so that the md5sum compares to any
>> md5sum the author made public.
> This is neither pragmatic, nor could I find anything in policy
> or the packaging manual that states this. The reason this is
I thought it said that one should try to keep the original file.
> not a useful guideline is that *many* upstream tarballs are not
> a ./$package-$version/code format. Some aren't gzipped, and
> some aren't even tarballs. Yet others are broken in other
> special ways. For example, I just sponsored an upload a
> fortunes package where the upstream tarball contained a full
> copy of the source for wget (?!?) - naturally, we cut that out
> and saved about 450kB of cruft from occupying every Debian
> mirror in the world.
> As for Debian policy, the packaging manual (section 3.3) has
> this to say:
> Original source archive - package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz
> This is a compressed (with gzip -9) tar file containing the
> source code from the upstream authors of the program. The
> tarfile unpacks into a directory package-upstream-version.orig,
> and does not contain files anywhere other than in there or in
> its subdirectories.
> Of course, you should make every effort to maintain the
> integrity of the upstream source, but that doesn't mean that
> you can't repack it if need be. After all, that's why we
> insist on licenses that allow redistribution.
Thats what I ment.
MfG
Goswin
