Frank Küster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote*: >Thomas Viehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: >> Frank Küster wrote: >>> Should I delete these from the original source? It's clear that this >>> won't reduce download size, because they would still be in >>> orig.tar.gz. It would just avoid confusion among people who want to >>> compile a custom version based on my debianized source. What do you (or >>> policy? Didn't find anything) recommend? >> The ideal solution would be asking upstream whether a -full.tar.gz and a >> -main.tar.gz (the latter not carrying the libraries) is an option. >Well, the full.tar.gz would be of no use, would it? The full.tar.gz would be what they have now and the main.tar.gz would be what you (or we) want.
>Oh, I wasn't aware of that. So I will talk to upstream wether I can just >delete them from orig.tar.gz. This archive had to be constructed >manually by me, anyway, because the original source is shipped in two >separate archives which have to be merged. Ideally, they might just do it themselves and relase that along the "comfort" tarball they distribute now. (Which is what I had in mind above.) Cheers T.
