Volker Grabsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Which of these ways is the current, modern, best practise way of > handling such exotic source archives?
I don't think that there's a general consensus about that. > The "Debian New Maintainers' Guide" explicitly says that it doesn't > cover this topic. The "Debian Developer's Reference" has one interesting > chapter "Best practices for orig.tar.gz files" > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/ch-best-pkging-practices.en.html#s-bpp-origtargz > > This covers "Repackaged upstream source", but it's very vague. It > doesn't say much about my three ways. It's vague with respect to your questions because I didn't see the need to address them - the real question was "when is repacking accepted at all". > Personally, I like the way 3) at most, because it directly uses the > upstream zip files. If I do so, may I then leave the required > "README.Debian-source"? Yes, I think so - you'll tell where to get the ZIP file in debian/copyright, anyway. > Although they use a "repacked source", they didn't provide a > README.Debian-source. Are there exceptions from that rule? Nobody is enforcing that, and it's actually a rather new addition to the Developers' Reference. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
