Hi! * Andres Mejia <mcitadel@gmail.com> [080217 17:21]: > > > 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. But you need to upload the tarball anyway, e.g. on mentors.d.n. And you could just wget it to alioth directly. And TTBOMK it is a pkg-games policy to have the tarballs there. > For this reason, I wanted to supply a get-orig-source or something similar > that does this. As allready explained: You don't want get-orig-source, which is defined by policy 4.9 to do something different. > 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. As long as you guarantee, that all orig.tar.gz end up with the same md5sum. Yours sincerely, Alexander
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