On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 06:48:11PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Thu, Mar 12 2009, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Given that we already have a tool that can download upstream > sources, with or without mangling, and can be used by facilities > outside of the unpacked Debian source package to determine if there was > new versions and to download unmangled versions, is there any need to > retain the get-orig-source target at all? I have get-orig-source targets that verify the upstream detached gpg signatures before repacking the tarballs. Is there a way to do that with uscan? > I mean, this seldom implemented target is duplicating an existing and > widely used facility in Debian; and removing the target from the policy > will advance the laudable goal of stripping the policy of cruft. Well, I doubt more people are using uscan mangling than are using get-orig-source, really; so I don't think that facility is "widely used". But that's not an argument against dropping get-orig-source from policy, either, if we think there's something better. If get-orig-source is going to be dropped from policy, I think there should be some replacement language encouraging the use of uscan with support for any necessary mangling. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
