Re: Bug#592839: dpkg-source option to remove files on unpack: debian/source/remove-files
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@ieee.org> writes:
> On Wed, Aug 25 2010, Ian Jackson wrote:
>
>> Goswin von Brederlow writes ("Re: Bug#592839: dpkg-source option to remove files on unpack: debian/source/remove-files"):
>>> That was my point. Legally we CAN use those files. But we don't WANT to
>>> use them for DFSG reasons.
>>
>> I think we are in vigorous agreement, but your tone makes me hesitate.
>> Let me summarise my understanding:
>>
>> File status: DFSG-free non-free but Not
>> redistributable redistributable
>> --------------- ---------------------- ------------------
>>
>> Presence Can and Currently removed Must be removed,
>> in .orig should be from .orig's by some so .orig tarball
>> .tar.gz included. maintainers. I think must be repacked.
>> this is a waste of
>> time.
>>
>> Removal or May sometimes IMO necessary to Insufficient.
>> inhibition be useful to prevent accidental
>> by dpkg-src avoid acci- use, and to facilitate
>> pattern or dental use. licence review
>> rm by rules
>>
>> Do you agree ? In particular, do you agree that repacking .orig
>> tarballs to remove non-free-but-redistributable files (such as RFCs
>> and non-free-GFDL docs) is a waste of time ?
ACK. That summarizes it nicely. The "Not redistributable" is a legal
problem and no amount of good will from ftp-master will change the need
to repack. The "non-free but redistributable" collumn is where
ftp-master has to be convinced.
> Once I have written my watch file, and the urepack script, I
> find that the time being wasted lies in the sub-second range. Hardly
> something I worry about, really.
I find the waste of time quite irelevant. Even if unpacking, delete,
repack takes a few minutes for a large package you don't do that often
and only once for each upstream version. And that could probably be
streamlined with importing the source into a VCS and running
pristine-tar. But it means the orig.tar.gz is no longer pristine.
Worst case different debian derivates will each have different
orig.tar.gz files because their rules of what to remove differs.
I would rather have pristine tarballs across the board and different
cleanup code in debian/rules.
> manoj
MfG
Goswin
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