On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 06:57:55PM +0000, Sean Whitton wrote: > control: tag -1 -patch +pending > > Hello, > > > One would need to check whether get-orig-source use uscan for repacking > > or if it only use uscan for downloading and then repack manually. > > Good point, but note that such cases can almost certainly migrate to > uscan -- and if they can't, that's a bug in uscan.
This is debatable. You might underestimate the challenge involved in building some "upstream" tarballs. > We're not rendering those packages buggy with this change, because it's > fine to continue to have a get-orig-source target. We're just reducing > the documented interfaces of packages a bit based on current trends, > which is useful for newcomers to Debian. So the only result of removing the mention of the optional get-orig-source target from policy is that it will appear in some debian/rules but not be documented anymore. I do not see how this can be helpful to newcomers. They will still be exposed to it without having the documentation in policy. It would be more useful to kept it but to add a note toward migrating to uscan if possible. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
