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Re: Q. What is the best practice about +dfsg and +ds extension?



Quoting Sean Whitton (2021-10-02 22:32:18)
> On Sat 02 Oct 2021 at 03:03PM +02, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> 
> > Quoting Kentaro Hayashi (2021-10-02 14:19:17)
> >> I want to know about the best practice of +dfsg and +ds extension. 
> >> As far as I know, it is not well documented as a policy or devref.
> >
> > When upstream codebase in its pristine form would violate the Debian 
> > Free Software Guidelines (DFSG), I would use the hint "dfsg"-
> >
> > When upstream codebase require repackaging for (only) other reasons 
> > than DFSG compliance I instead use the hint "ds" (as in "derived 
> > source").
> 
> Or "Debian source" :)

Yeah, except that's confusing: Debian subdir is already a "Debian 
source" - included as either a patch (with source format "1.0") or a 
tarball (with source format "3.0 (quilt)").


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