On 06/08/17 19:53, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
Why would you need to repack a tarball just because it contains prebuilt docs (non-DFSG-free licensed documentation aside)? I'm all for rebuilding those at deb build time just to be sure you have the right deps packaged too, but if the ones in the tarball are built from DFSG-compliant upstream source, included in the archive for that matter, then leaving the tarball pristine shouldn't be a policy violation, right? That's like repacking a tarball for an autotools-using project because upstream is shipping a configure script built from an included configure.in file.
You'd still have to clean the pre-built files, since they would be overwritten by the build system and therefore dpkg-buildpackage would complain if you run the build twice.
So, you might as well just exclude them from the source straight away, no? Ghis
