I have noticed that, for most of the spkg-src scripts, it is not
documented at all *how* they should be used. Also the developer
documentation at
http://www.sagemath.org/doc/developer/packaging.html#modified-tarballs
doesn't say what exactly such a script should do.
This is because these are mostly left-overs from the old spkg system.
And many of those scripts start with "rm -rf src" which would be a bad
idea to run from $SAGE_ROOT.
To clear this up, we should fix what such a script should do and how it
should be called. I think the script should work within a Sage shell
(and it should check that it's being called from a Sage shell) from any
working directory and the end result of such a script should always be a
tarball ready-to-use in $SAGE_DISTFILES.
And perhaps we should put all the common "boilerplate" of such scripts
in one central place.
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