Re: source-contains-waf-binary tag added to nonfatal lintian autoreject list

[Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org>]

On 02/26/2012 03:00 PM, Luca Falavigna wrote:
> lintian 2.5.5, recently uploaded in unstable, introduced a new tag
> called "source-contains-waf-binary", which checks whether waf "binary"
> is available in source packages. Please see [0] for further information.
>
> We just added the tag to the dak nonfatal autoreject list, that means
> packages triggering that error will be automatically rejected by dak,
> unless the tag is overridden for a good reason.
>
> At the time of writing this email, several packages still need to be
> processed [1], please consider fixing them before Wheezy freeze.
>
> [0] http://wiki.debian.org/UnpackWaf
> [1]
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=ftpmaster@debian.org;tag=waf-unpack
Would an acceptable alternative be if there was a way to edit the 
original sources and regenerate the 'waf' file in some way, either from 
other files in the same source package (an unpacked wafadmin/ directory) 
or using some other package in the archive (e.g. a waf package)?

This would be similar to the way 'configure' files generated by autoconf 
are treated at the moment.

Cheers,

Jelmer