On Thu Jul 17 00:36, Philipp Matthias Hahn wrote: > Also, if I strip those .jar-files from the .orig.tar.gz, do I still need > to keep their copyright and license-info in debian/copyright? > Hi Philipp, If not explicit policy then it is the norm (and required if there are any licence issues as has been mentioned) to repack the tarball. This happens once before packaging (per-release) and not in the normal build procedure. In this case you should change the upstream version (normally by appending .dfsg, so the tarball would be foo_1.2.3.dfsg.orig.tar.gz, and the version of the package would be 1.2.3.dfsg-1 etc). You also must document this stripping process in the copyright file, but you shouldn't include the licences of the files which have been removed. A recommended practice is to include a get-orig-source target in the rules file which can be used to obtain debian source from a pristine tarball and possibly download the original as well. This helps document what you have done and makes your life easier for new upstream releases. I have provided in the javahelper suite as part of jh_makepkg (which creates a template package from upstream source) a --clean option which will guess at which files need to be removed. Obviously, this is just an aid, you will need to check it has done the right thing. Matt -- Matthew Johnson
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