Hi, 2017-08-06 14:53 GMT-04:00 Jeremy Stanley <[email protected]>:
> Why would you need to repack a tarball just because it contains > prebuilt docs (non-DFSG-free licensed documentation aside)? I'm all > Lintian considers this as "bug": https://lintian.debian. org/tags/source-contains-prebuilt-sphinx-documentation.html (pedantic, I know). Pretty sure OpenStack at least would consider any content which > requires Debian package maintainers to alter tarballs prior to > including them in the archive as fairly serious bug in its software. > But they want to keep generated (read: useless for our orig tarballs) things inside release tarballs. And sdist orig tarballs are too big, because they contains prebuild things, FTP masters are not happy. (Thomas words). Context: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/openstack-devel/2017-July/ 021447.html ... I've been already flamed by the FTP masters because small packages like nova-compute-* became insanely huge (ie: megs instead of kbytes). ... I consider git repository to be better source of "source code" than sdist, which is built from that same git. But it's just about POV :). -- Best regards Ondřej Nový Email: [email protected] PGP: 3D98 3C52 EB85 980C 46A5 6090 3573 1255 9D1E 064B

