Ben Finney <ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au> writes: > It's been brought to my attention that this approach actually conflicts > with the above section of policy. > > Am I right in thinking that the ‘get-orig-source’ target should ignore > the version strings in ‘debian/changelog’, and should instead get > whatever version is the latest available from upstream?
I think the way that you're using it is more useful (and possible) than doing what an exact reading of the current text would indicate, and I do the same thing that you're doing. http://bugs.debian.org/466550 is somewhat related. For packages with non-trivial rules to generate the upstream source tarball used with Debian, it's very difficult or impossible to write a future-proofed version of that cdoe that will work with arbitrary future versions from upstream. However, documenting the method used to generate the *current* version will let people modify that target as needed to package future versions. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
