Re: What to do about source-contains-CVS-dir?
On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 01:09:39AM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> What are the lintian maintainers' words of advice about dealing with
> source-contains-CVS-dir? Clearly, this is not desirable, but am I
> supposed to rewrap the source tarball? In the overall scheme of
> things, this seems like a worse solution than a few extra files in the
> source tarball. (Think about traceability etc.) The lintian advice
> currently contains "Export from CVS rather than use a checkout.",
> ignoring the fact that in most cases, it's not the Debian packager that
> deals with making the source tarball. What is a packager to do?
IMHO, the tarball should be left alone, and the lintian warning
overridden. You can put a comment in the override file explaining why
(upstream distributes the CVS dirs...)
--Jeroen
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