Steve Langasek dijo [Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 02:05:42AM -0700]: > I think it's perfectly reasonable to want the get-orig-source target to give > you a *specified* version of an upstream tarball, rather than the *newest* > version of an upstream tarball. Packaging a new upstream version doesn't > necessarily mean packaging the latest that uscan can find. > > It's also useful for third parties to be able to easily examine the > provenance of specific Debian tarballs. A get-orig-source target provides a > much more concise description of the Debian changes than examining the diff > between the two tarballs. > > So I certainly agree that uscan doesn't obsolete the get-orig-source target, > but I disagree that it's not useful to have such a target generate a tarball > for the 'current' upstream version.
Good point you have here - But (and I know it is not being discussed yet, maybe you want to teleport this thread a couple of years into the future) I feel this should clearly be an optional target, and the canonical location for orig.tar.gz files should still be our archive - Down the other road lies Gentoo's BSD ports' madness, where an upstream site restructure means packages become unreachable and insta-FTBFS. -- Gunnar Wolf - gw...@gwolf.org - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
