Re: automatically maintaining/tracking repackaged upstream tarballs
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Daniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.pro> wrote:
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> I've just added some comments on my blog about tracking upstream
> tarballs that need to be repackaged and automating whatever we can:
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> http://danielpocock.com/automatically-creating-repackaged-upstream-tarballs-for-debian
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> Given all the recent issues with popular packages containing minified
> JavaScript and other sourceless files, I'm hoping to get feedback from
> people about how the solution can be generalized to help as many
> developers as possible.
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> In the Java world, some of these things stick out like a sore thumb
> (e.g. copies of junit or other *.jar files in upstream tarball) - it is
> not hard to extrapolate this to match other patterns though.
I think the latest initiative is to get Files-Excluded [1] (in
debian/copyright) formalized in Policy (#685506) and to encourage
people to use it.
Regards,
Vincent
[1] https://wiki.debian.org/UscanEnhancements
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