Re: get-orig-source and standardized source repacking (was: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released)
On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 08:27:13AM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Jul 2018 at 08:16:12 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > Just yesterday
> > I had an example where the upstream download archive is lacking some
> > files from upstream SVN which need to be merged in to enable building
> > the software[1].
>
> This often happens in Autotools packages whose upstream developer works
> from git, produces (but does not use) dist tarballs, and does not use
> `make distcheck`. You don't particularly need to repack the orig tarball
> for this: what I normally do is to put the missing file in `debian/dist`
> and copy it into place during the build.
Or just don't use that tarball but grab what's in git. An autotools dist
tarball is not the preferred form for modification anyway.
Meow.
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