Hi, Quoting Jakub Wilk (2014-07-16 00:26:09) > >uscan does this automatically when repacking upstream tarballs. > > I don't believe this is the case. And the .orig.tar you uploaded to > mentors certainly contains debian/:
indeed, you are right! I fixed it and the upstream tarball now comes without the ./debian directory. > >I don't want to uselessly increase the amount of dependencies of the > >resulting binary package (even though libpython is probably present on most > >systems). > > It wouldn't increase the amount of packages required to run pdf2htmlex, > at least not for the time being, because libfontforge depends on > libpython. Right. > The reason linking to unneeded libraries is bad is because it makes Packages > a tiny bit bigger, makes dependency resolved a tiny bit slower, and becomes > burdensome when one of the libraries change SONAME. Thanks for educating me :) I didnt think of especially the SONAME change. > >Though on the other hand it seems I managed to patch the build system such > >that it will not use libpython anymore (see patch "no-libpython"). > > That's much better. Now, can you do the same with gunicode? :-) It turns out that doing so was just as simple! :D > >What is your opinion about the tarball repacking and the Files-Excluded in > >debian/copyright? > > I don't like it, but I'm not going to stop anybody from using it. Then I think I will keep using it. I do see that using debian/copyright is the wrong place for repacking information but I find it easier to list the excluded files in a declarative way instead of embedding yet another fragile repack script. I do not think there is another way to state the excluded files from the original upstream tarball without using a turing complete language than using Files-Excluded. Once there is, I'll immediately switch to it. > Note that currently uscan would generate .orig.tar with wrong version; > see bug #753772. I can confirm that I was missing a uversionmangle in my debian/watch. This is fixed now. Thanks a lot for your help! If that is all, then all then I only need somebody to sponsor this :) cheers, josch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140716063637.31130.98246@hoothoot
