Re: Removing non-Linux files from source tarballs

[Justin Pryzby <jpryzby+d@quoininc.com>]

On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 04:27:14PM -0600, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> On 01/11/2007, Justin Pryzby <jpryzby+d@quoininc.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 01:17:26PM -0600, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> > > Hello, mentors.
> > >
> > > I'm currently working on Processing (#433270).
> > >
> > > Now, Processing distributes in its source tarball (well, not really a
> > > source tarball at all, since it's necessary to get everything from
> > > svn), some Windows .exes and some MacOSX-specific files too.
> > >
> > > Do these have to be removed from the source package that I make for Debian?
> >
> > I forget if it's policy or devref which prefers *not* removing them
> > unless you're already using a nonpristine sourceball or it would save
> > significant space,
> 
> It would save 20 megs from the source package. Is that considerable
> enough for their removal?
That part isn't in policy :) Is that 20mb before or after compression?
Since it's a source package, there's only one copy (per suite, perhaps
with a couple extra copies for a couple days at a time [?], but not
per architecture).  If you do repackage, make sure to provide an
get-orig-source target to retrieve (?), unpack, modify, and repack
that (and the top level dir should have ".orig" appended).

Justin