Re: Is it okay to download orig source once only?

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

Yves Arrouye writes ("Is it okay to download orig source once only?"):
...
> I propose that we upload once
>         somepackage_release.tar.gz
> which unpacks to
>         somepackage-release.orig/
> and then further uploads would be
>         somepackage_release-deb.diff.gz
>         somepackage_release-deb_arch.deb
> Would that be okay?

Not at the moment, no, because the .tar.gz is the debianised source.

However with the new source package format this is possible in
principle, though in practice there are a few technical issues with
dpkg-source to be sorted out.

Ian.