On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:49:49AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > process, are a bit of a PITA. They are particularly so for tools who want to > do > source code analyses on the code shipped by debian (e.g. the recently started > DACA project) but, more generally, violate a good faith assumption that
Agreed. > "apt-get source" will deliver an unpacked source package where the user can > grep through upstream source code. There is? apt-get source just gets the source code, what it does even with tarball-in-tarball. > Considering all the above, it would be nice if policy could start to > discourage > tar-in-tar, at least with a "should" (not) requirement. A potentially > appropriate place where to mention that seems to be §4.8 "Restrictions on > objects in source packages". And some time later it goes to must? Making some package more a PITA to support than with tarball-in-tarball? Grüße/Regards, René -- .''`. René Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org | http://people.debian.org/~rene/ `. `' r...@debian.org | GnuPG-Key ID: D03E3E70 `- Fingerprint: E12D EA46 7506 70CF A960 801D 0AA0 4571 D03E 3E70 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110118000655.gh18...@rene-engelhard.de
