Re: Where to mention, when several tarballs are merged into one .orig.tar.gz

[Daniel Leidert <daniel.leidert.spam@gmx.net>]

Am Sonntag, den 04.03.2007, 01:32 +0000 schrieb Paul Cager:
> Daniel Leidert wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > For docbook-xsl I merge two tarballs together docbook-xsl-x.y.z.tar.gz
> > and docbook-xsl-doc-x.y.z.tar.gz. Where should I mention this?
> > debian/README.Debian or better debian/copyright?
> > 
> > Regards, Daniel
> 
> Definitely README.Debian; probably a good idea in "copyright", where you
> mention the download location.
> 
> Have you considered adding a "get-orig-source" target to rules?

Yes. I now heard about it several times. I should really give it a try.

Do I understand it correctly, that it is only invoked, if run

fakeroot debian/rules get-orig-source

Or is it also invoked in a different case (if e.g. the .orig.tar.gz is
missing)?

Regards, Daniel