Re: Recommending get-orig-source for packages ?

2013-12-03 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 11:59:33AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > uscan to grow features for removing files from upstream tarballs, in a > declarative way preferably. That's in devscripts git and will be included in the next devscripts version. (see [1]) > The default dh get-orig-source to invoke

Re: Recommending get-orig-source for packages ?

2013-12-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Stuart Prescott wrote: > tl;dr: is get-orig-source supposed to be a duplicate of uscan (d/watch) or > apt-get source? Neither. As policy attempts to explain, get-orig-source is for the cases where the Debian orig tarball is not bit-for-bit identical to the upstrea

Re: Recommending get-orig-source for packages ?

2013-12-03 Thread Stuart Prescott
Hi Paul, > Policy recommends it, that should be enough? > > http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-debianrules tl;dr: is get-orig-source supposed to be a duplicate of uscan (d/watch) or apt-get source? And why do we want to reimplement either? And why do we want yet another l

Re: Recommending get-orig-source for packages ?

2013-12-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 11:42 PM, Olivier Berger wrote: > I haven't spotted anything recommending a get-orig-source target in > debian/rules in the team's docs. Policy recommends it, that should be enough? http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-debianrules -- bye, pabs http:/

Re: Recommending get-orig-source for packages ?

2013-12-03 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 05:42:31PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Olivier Berger , 2013-12-03, 17:06: > >Piotr Ożarowski writes: > > > >>if there's working debian/watch file, there's no need to add > >>get-orig-source (and to be honest, I prefer debian/rules without > >>get-orig-source if debian/wat

Re: Recommending get-orig-source for packages ?

2013-12-03 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Olivier Berger , 2013-12-03, 17:06: Piotr Ożarowski writes: if there's working debian/watch file, there's no need to add get-orig-source (and to be honest, I prefer debian/rules without get-orig-source if debian/watch is available) +1 What's your rationale, Piotr ? I'd understand if th

Re: Recommending get-orig-source for packages ?

2013-12-03 Thread Olivier Berger
Piotr Ożarowski writes: > [Olivier Berger, 2013-12-03] >> Hi. >> >> I haven't spotted anything recommending a get-orig-source target in >> debian/rules in the team's docs. >> >> I think it could be an interesting recommendation, as since the practice >> seems to be only versioning the contents

Re: Recommending get-orig-source for packages ?

2013-12-03 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
[Olivier Berger, 2013-12-03] > Hi. > > I haven't spotted anything recommending a get-orig-source target in > debian/rules in the team's docs. > > I think it could be an interesting recommendation, as since the practice > seems to be only versioning the contents of the debian/ subdir, it could > b

Re: Recommending get-orig-source for packages ?

2013-12-03 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Dec 03, 2013, at 04:42 PM, Olivier Berger wrote: >I haven't spotted anything recommending a get-orig-source target in >debian/rules in the team's docs. >I guess most of the time, this could be derived from the debian/watch. Right, because most of the time svn-buildpackage (which I'm guessing

Recommending get-orig-source for packages ?

2013-12-03 Thread Olivier Berger
Hi. I haven't spotted anything recommending a get-orig-source target in debian/rules in the team's docs. I think it could be an interesting recommendation, as since the practice seems to be only versioning the contents of the debian/ subdir, it could be interesting to document, through that targe