Hi,
as this issue affects quite a few packages, I'd like to bring this up
for wider discussion.
The issue basically is, that the waf build system uses a python script,
which embeds a bz2 tarball containing further python sources. Those are
unpacked to .waf-*/ when the waf script is executed. More details can be
found at [1].
A few observations/questions:
* We do accept tarball-in-tarball packages. What makes this specific
case different?
* Where exactly is the DFSG violation? The package does ship the source
code even if embedding it in the waf script doesn't make that obvious
but
* Would it be sufficient to document in README.source how a user can
unpack and modify the waf sources (basically what [2] does) and wouldn't
this fulfill the DFSG requirements?
* What about packages which ship both an autotools and waf based build
system and the Debian package uses the one based on autotools?
Michael
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=645190
[2] http://wiki.debian.org/UnpackWaf