Re: RFS: kde-icons-nuvola -- popular icon theme for kde
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Christoph Haas wrote:
> I don't think that it's completely evil to repack the upstream archive
I agree. On the other hand, the first thing prospective sponsor does is
to download the upstream tarball upstream site and compare the checksum
with whatever is in the .dsc. If they doesn't match the question is
"Why? Did this maintainer put some backdoors and wants to mask them as
simple repackaging?"
A've read somewhere (but can't find it now :-( ) that it is highly
prefered not to repack the upstream source unless there is a good reason
for it (remove undistributable content f.ex.)
> if it has strange formats or naming conventions. Examples are:
>
> - the archive is in .tar.bz format
This can be converted using bz2cat | gzip > ...orig.tar.gz
Hopefully, dpkg-source shall support .tar.bz2 .orig. files natively one
day[1]...
> - the archive is in .zip format
> - the upstream provides a debian/ directory that you find unusable
These are good reasons for repackaging too.
dam
[1] dpkg-source -b . ../package_version.orig.tar.bz2 does the right
thing, despite a couple of warnings emited. However, there's no way to
specify the second argument to dpkg-source via debuild
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