Hi Steve, On Sat, 14 Jan 2012, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
The trouble with this is that "Source: unavailable" does not describe the situation. The source *is*, indeed, available. The distinction, rather, is that there is no upstream tarball.
oops, I wasn't aware that the cmake file is all that is needed. So a line like "Source: debmedrepo" would be more appropriate, right?
IMHO, the process would be more robust if, instead, the script uses the standard Debian method to describe whether the source package has an upstream tarball + patch, or not. Specifically, the absense of a "debian revision" in the Version string [2].
Ok, but can you really say that any native package has no tarball to download?
Thorsten