On Sun, Jul 2, 2017 at 11:22 AM, Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> wrote: > control: user debian-pol...@packages.debian.org > control: usertag -1 +discussion > > Hello Bastien, > > On Sun, Jan 01, 2017 at 01:37:25PM +0100, Bastien ROUCARIÈS wrote: >> Following #849830 and generally source-is-missing lintian problems >> could you document in 4.9 Main building script: debian/rules that >> clean target must no be used for removing dfsg problem but the right >> tools is repack > > I don't think that it should be a point of Policy that the rules clean > target is not to be used for this purpose, because it is entailed by > the ftp-master's interpretation of DFSG plus this sentence that we > already have in Policy: > > Every [source or binary] package in main must comply with the DFSG > (Debian Free Software Guidelines). > > However, as you say, we should document this to prevent others from > tripping over it. As you suggest, such a note would need to refer to > repacking the tarball. The Developer's Reference already contains a > discussion of repacking upstream tarballs, so perhaps this should go > there? > > Or we could use a footnote to Policy. I attach a patch doing that.
Really nice worded. Thank you > -- > Sean Whitton
