Barry Warsaw <ba...@debian.org> writes: > On Dec 05, 2013, at 06:27 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > > >Are you expecting ‘debian/repack’ to be significantly different when > >repacking Python-language packages, as opposed to the general case of > >repacking an upstream source tarball? What differences would be great > >enough to warrant a Python-library-specific recipe? > > I doubt most packages will need repacking.
Perhaps not most. But I see the proportion of upstream source tarballs released with non-source files increasing, and hence the need to re-pack those tarballs increasing. > I was just thinking a link might be useful for folks landing on the > LibraryStyleGuide page, but I don't feel strongly about it. I have written <URL:https://wiki.debian.org/BenFinney/software/repack>, do you think that is worth linking to (perhaps if I put it at a different Wiki page) from the Python library style guide? -- \ “One time a cop pulled me over for running a stop sign. He | `\ said, ‘Didn't you see the stop sign?’ I said, ‘Yeah, but I | _o__) don't believe everything I read.’” —Steven Wright | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/7w61r2nvi2....@benfinney.id.au
