Re: snapshot.debian.org implications for you
On Tue, 18 May 2010, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> On Wed, 12 May 2010, Felipe Sateler wrote:
> > Would it be feasible to have some sort of automation surrounding this?
> > Breaches that are fixed by a subsequent upload will very likely contain
> > some strings in the changelog: strip, distributable, dfsg-free or
> > non-free.
> > Also, a significant part of the breaches would have to be fixed by a
> > repacked tarball. Thus, detecting changes in the version string (adding
> > dfsg or repack) would give a good pointer on packages that need to go
> > from snapshot.debian.org.
>
> Maybe. Hard to tell. Do you want to try it?
Most of the repackaging is done because we don't _want_ to redistribute
those files not because we do not have the right to redistribute them.
The check would be mostly useless IMO.
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