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I am prospective DD; as one of my opening packages, I intend to adopt the
sound file editor xwave. One of the bugs against it, 170005, says that
depending on the virtual package "libxaw-dev"
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 11:40:12 +0200, Matthias Urlichs
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> While I admit that pristine sources are a good thing (which is why
>> not having pristine sources is deprecated); it is way premature to
>> suggest making that a policy requirement.
> Yo
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 11:16:49 +0200, Matthias Urlichs
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> This would be an undue burden on a number of packages.
> What's undue about inserting a "I created the .orig.tar.gz package
> by calling 'make clean_all_generated_files'." sentence in t
Matthias Urlichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> many packages seem to contain .orig.tar.gz files which may or may not be
> directly related to the files actually available from upstream. That is
> unfortunate.
>
> I think that it would make sense to add a requirement to Policy that
> the
Glenn McGrath, 2003-09-18 10:30:18 +0200 :
> On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 02:01:25 -0500
> Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Pristine sources are already a desired, but not required,
>> characteristic. There are enough brain dead upstream packaging
>> practices that we can not mandate
I've asked the following on debian-mentors already, but didn't get an
answer yet. So I am asking the experts which I expect to be on this list
:):
I'm stuck... As I have written some days before I am trying to package
camsource - a camserv like webcam-streaming software.
As usual ;) I did not lis
Hi,
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> While I admit that pristine sources are a good thing (which is
> why not having pristine sources is deprecated); it is way premature
> to suggest making that a policy requirement.
You might have misunderstood me. I advocate requiring either
- package pristine upst
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 18:25:37 +1000, Glenn McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 02:01:25 -0500
> Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Pristine sources are already a desired, but not required,
>> characteristic. There are enough brain dead upstream packaging
>> practic
Hi,
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> This would be an undue burden on a number of packages.
What's undue about inserting a "I created the .orig.tar.gz package by calling
'make clean_all_generated_files'." sentence in the copyright / readme /
whatever file?
That's all I'd require. Anything else woul
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 02:01:25 -0500
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Pristine sources are already a desired, but not required,
> characteristic. There are enough brain dead upstream packaging
> practices that we can not mandate pristine sources.
Dont go blaming "upstream" for
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 08:01:46 +0200, Matthias Urlichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Hi, many packages seem to contain .orig.tar.gz files which may or
> may not be directly related to the files actually available from
> upstream. That is unfortunate.
> I think that it would make sense to add a requi
Hi,
many packages seem to contain .orig.tar.gz files which may or may not be
directly related to the files actually available from upstream. That is
unfortunate.
I think that it would make sense to add a requirement to Policy that
the .orig.tar.gz file should be an unmodified copy from upstrea
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