Re: New request for checking: Java library tagsoup (ITP #359170)

[Paul Cager <paul-debian@home.paulcager.org>]

James Westby wrote:
> On (22/11/06 15:31), Paul Cager wrote:
>
>
> > > I don't think the repackaging of the upstream zip file into a tarball
> > > warrants a README.Debian-source file, so I would remove that.
> > I put this in because of section 6.7.8.2 in the Developers' Reference
> > seemed to require it. Is this right?
>
> I read that section as the file is required if the repacking is for
> anything other than the purely technical reason of having to do it to
> get a tar.gz as opposed to any other format, as that is the only format
> accepted for uploads to Debian. 
>
> There are many packages that repack a .tar.bz2 and don't document it.


That's good - I'll remove it. There's a get-orig-source target in 
debian/rules, anyway.

Thanks,
Paul