-=| Gerfried Fuchs, 18.07.2007 12:36 |=- > On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 12:08:20PM -0400, Andres Mejia wrote: >> I'll fix the tar in tar solution. The problem will be with >> vegastrike-data. I'm trying to get rid of all the warnings and one >> error. Fixing the warnings consist of uploading a new orig tarball. > > You should never ever change the upstream tarball except in cases where > you want to remove non-DFSG stuff from it to make the package be allowed > into main. I don't of any other reason to change the upstream tarball. > If you do, please elaborate. Just for completeness: I repackage firebird2.0 because upstream includes a complete copy of libicu in the tarball. Removing this drops the source package size from 16 to 6.6MB (actually, upstream distributes tar.bz2 which is 12MB). I guess this falls under the "significant space savings" hypothesis in DevRef §6.7.8.2 -- dam JabberID: dam@jabber.minus273.org
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