Re: lintian "source-is-missing" for jquery -- was Re: Bug#744699: Frets On Fire bug report 744699

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo@gmail.com>]

2014-04-26 11:00 Vincent Bernat:
> ❦ 26 avril 2014 01:31 CEST, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo@gmail.com> :
>
> > > > Compared to that amount of work, stripping a few files from a tarball
> > > > using uscan is utterly trivial and I don't see why it is a problem.
> > > > It's quite a bit harder to do the right thing and persuade upstream to
> > > > not include them.
> > >
> > > How to handle this with gbp?
> >
> > I guess that one of the best things that you can do is to filter the files, like
> > other cruft in the tarball coming from upstream, example:
> >
> > http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-sdl/packages/libsdl2.git;a=blob;f=debian/gbp.conf;h=b3a5a0939feff4f6578c8d617059ac7e740b778b;hb=HEAD
>
> Good to know. I was using a dedicated "dfsg" branch, but the workflow is
> crappy in this case. But currently, nothing we can do with
> debian/copyright?

I am not sure of what you mean.

If you don't have it in the repackaged .orig.tar, you don't have to document it
in debian/copyright (you can document somewhere why you removed them from
orig.tar, though).

Other people mentioned other methods of solving these cases with uscan and other
tools, but I am not familiar with those so I don't know if there are better
methods.

--
Manuel