Re: working with Debian subversion sources

[Faheem Mitha <faheem@email.unc.edu>]

On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Laszlo 'GCS' Boszormenyi wrote:

> * Faheem Mitha <faheem@email.unc.edu> [2004-08-17 01:12:46 +0000]:
>
> > > I've been trying to package subversion, version 1.1.0-rc2,
>  I think David already started with it, as we got a request for the
> package. But please note two things: we short of postponed it, as it
> won't make into Sarge and David is moving back to the US of A so he does
> not have an internet access for some weeks.

I'm trying to package subversion for practice, and because I'm keen to
switch to using the fsfs filesystem as soon as I can. If I get it
successfully packaged, I'll post an annoucement on subversion-users.

In that event, would it also be appropriate to cc debian-mentors and ask
if someone could take a look at the package?

> > Apparently not, after all. I see that the orig tarball is a tarball
> > within a tarball. I guess that answers one of my questions. :-) I am
> > still not sure why it is done that way, though.
>  Simple: Subversion contains a copy of Neon and libapr0, and at least
> Neon is not DFSG free and as libapr0 is pulled from the Apache2 package,
> both are _removed_ for copyright reasons, or not to crush with the Apache2
> libapr0.

I see. Maybe I am being dense, but even if the upstream sources have been
modified, why is it better to put them inside an orig.tar.gz tarball? To
serve as a warning that it is not the original tarball, or does something
in policy demand it be done this way?

Thanks.                                                         Faheem.