Hi! On Friday, November 18, 2011 01:13:52 AM Charles Plessy wrote: > if the file is completely useless and is not intended to shift the tree of > one level, you can delete it. Here is for instance how I did for the > bedtools package, where the upstream tarball contained some Macintosh > ressource files for the top-level directory.
I encountered this when I was reviewing (and I still hope this gets into debian by some Debian maintainer ;-)) the php-pecl-http package submitted by Peter Pentchev on this list a few days ago. The whole debian/rules file depends on that rebuilt tarball where the top-level files are removed. That did struck me as odd. Simultaniously I was building php-phpdocumentor, were I didn't need this with the drawback of depending on CDBS. > But before embarking in adding complexity to your package, there is > something even simpler to do: talk to Upstream ! Thats a bit hard when you get tarballs from pear. They won't reorganize those pear tarballs in general just for Debian, I guess. Still not repacking the source seems like the better idea. greetings, Mati -- me on twitter: @mathiasertl | soup: http://soup.er.tl I only read plain-text mail! I prefer signed/encrypted mail!
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