Re: repack upstream sources or overrides ?

[Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 02:08:59AM +0000, Sune Vuorela wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I am working on #338554 - and I am almost there. I have one big problem,
> though.
> 
> Upstream did not run make distclean before releasing the tarball. Of
> course, linda and lintian complains about this.
> 
> Should I add overrides for lintian warnings and linda _errors_ to
> address this problems - or is the right thing to unpack sources; 
> make distclean; pack sources and call that .orig.tar.gz  ?
What errors?  I think the 3 typically justified cases for needing a
nonpristine tarball are:

  - non dfsg clean
  - requires multiple source tarballs, or sourcetarball not tar.gz
    format
  - source tarball includes generated binaries
    (is this your situation?)

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Clear skies,
Justin