Re: Writing get-orig-source targets to conform with policy
On Sunday 17 February 2008 8:31:11 am Alexander Schmehl wrote:
> * Andres Mejia <mcitadel@gmail.com> [080217 07:31]:
> > For ensuring the exact tarball that was used to generate the orig tarball
> > is used.
>
> But we keep them allready on alioth. So a "get current orig" target
> would be quite easier as an wget from the pkg-games website, wouldn't
> it?
That's only if someone does upload the tarball to alioth. For me, it takes 2
or more hours to upload files that are 100MB or more, and that's when doing
an upload overnight.
For this reason, I wanted to supply a get-orig-source or something similar
that does this. It's also a reason why I wanted svn-buildpackage to be able
to run "debian/rules get-orig-source" (or any other script and options for
that matter) just like how svn-buildpackage supports downloading an orig
tarball. I'm sure the Games Team (and anyone) could benefit from this. I did
submit a patch for this by the way, it's at http://bugs.debian.org/458508.
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Regards,
Andres
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