On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 11:19 AM, Gianfranco Costamagna <costamagnagianfra...@yahoo.it> wrote:
>>Looking at the policy I think it is better to document this in >>debian/copyright. I like to document why I remove files from the >>original source. > > > but you didn't remove them anymore, right? > anyway, let me know your solution :) > (looks e.g. to Files-Excluded copyright feature) See: http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/libharu.git/commit/?id=63bc1c455053197917b15e3bcee3e25d0b3f1f2a @@ -2,6 +2,13 @@ Format: http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.1/ Upstream-Name: libharu Upstream-Contact: libh...@googlegroups.com Files-Excluded: demo/pngsuite win32 demo/*.pdf demo/ttfont demo/type1 +Comment: These files are removed from the upstream archive: + demo/pngsuite: non dfsg-free license + demo/type1: fonts already in package gsfonts + demo/ttfont: font already in package ttf-dustin + demo/*.pdf: binary files + win32/: binary files and/or unneeded files for debian build + Files: * Copyright: 1999-2006, Takeshi Kanno diff --git a/debian/readme.source b/debian/readme.source deleted file mode 100644 I do remove them now. Not in the previous release where the tarball was made with make dist (vs github snapshot now). >>Strictly speaking both are not necessary when you build the package >>the first time, however, when you rebuild a source package after >>building a binary package (or when using eg git-buildpackage) it will >>complain that these files have changed compared to the version in the >>tarball/repository. > > > I know this so well, the question is: > > isn't something like > $ cat debian/clean > > _configs.sed > include/hpdf_config.h > include/hpdf_version.h > > > more elegant that the patch itself? I tried this but reverted: I still get errors when rebuilding. Probably the best solution would be to use the debian/clean file and add these files to Files-Excluded in d/copyright (since I'm repackaging anyway). Then there would be no difference. For this release I prefer keeping the patches and not changing my source tarball. I've uploaded a new package with these changes and the multiarch-fields in d/control Kind Regards, Johan
