Re: Recommending get-orig-source for packages ?

2013-12-09 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Ben, On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 09:07:01PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > > 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 https://wiki.debian.org/BenFinney/software/repack>, > do you think that is

Re: Trim out Ubuntu entries in d/changelog?

2013-12-09 Thread Barry Warsaw
Thanks for the feedback folks. I'm not sure it's going to be feasible to collapse the non-Debian changelog entries - there have been a lot of uploads to Ubuntu in the meantime. I don't know what I'm going to do yet, but it seems like it's at least acceptable to leave them in or trim them. At lea

Re: Recommending get-orig-source for packages ?

2013-12-09 Thread Ben Finney
Andreas Tille writes: > On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 09:07:01PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > > I have written 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? > > Can you

Re: Recommending get-orig-source for packages ?

2013-12-09 Thread Stuart Prescott
Hi Ben, > I think adding a field to ‘debian/copyright’ for that purpose is a bad > idea, so I am unlikely to incorporate that functionality into the > document. I'm sure you are aware that policy §12.5 requires the details of where upstream sources were obtained from; that is commonly interpret

Re: Recommending get-orig-source for packages ?

2013-12-09 Thread Ben Finney
Stuart Prescott writes: > In the current copyright-format/1.0, people are including repackaging > information with a Comment field, as an explanatory text to the Source > field or with some other ad hoc field name. By my reading of ‘copyright-format/1.0’ (the “Machine-readable debian/copyright f