On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Sven Hoexter <s...@timegate.de> wrote:
> We do it all the time. Just 'dpkg -l|grep dfsg' on your local system > and you should find plenty of those modified source tarballs. > > What I, as an uploader, do in such cases is a diff between the upstream > provided tarball and what's in the dfsg orig.tar.gz. You can get a > rough overview with diffstat and then review suspicious additions in > more detail. Best practice for modified tarballs is to write a debian/rules get-orig-source target that downloads the upstream tarball and removes anything that needs to be removed. IIRC this is documented either in policy or devref. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caktje6f1mlrfda_ayqihxuytynwhdrjuae0vxui+fxyv_bd...@mail.gmail.com
