Re: DEP-5: removed files
Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> writes:
> while checking the section 6.7.8.2 of the Developers reference
> (“Repackaged upstream source”) in the context on another thread on this
> list
> ([🔎] d921045c2e3ae5ecfba088e9d82eb2c6@drazzib.com">http://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/[🔎] d921045c2e3ae5ecfba088e9d82eb2c6@drazzib.com),
> I found the following :
> A repackaged .orig.tar.gz
>
> 1. should be documented in the resulting source package. Detailed
> information on how the repackaged source was obtained, and on how
> this can be reproduced should be provided in debian/copyright. It
> is also a good idea to provide a get-orig-source target in your
> debian/rules file that repeats the process, as described in the
> Policy Manual, Main building script: debian/rules.
> I have no strong opinion on the subject, but I think that either the
> Developers Reference should be modified to reflect current consensus and
> practice, or in contrary the section 6.7.8.2 of the Dev. Ref. argues for
> the incorporation of the removing information in the DEP-5
> machine-readable format.
I personally still believe this information belongs in debian/copyright,
not in README.source. README.source might be appropriate if there are
detailed instructions required for how someone else would create a new
upstream source tarball, but debian/copyright is the appropriate location
to describe the provenance of the upstream tarball, which in my opinion
should include a human-readable description of transformations applied to
it.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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