Re: About get-orig-source - latest or always the same?
On Sunday 24 May 2009 18:15:25 Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
> Dear mentors
>
> I have a question about policy with respect to get-orig-source and
> it's use with the DFSG tarballs.
>
> The policy 4.9 says:
>
> "This target fetches the most recent version of the original source
> package from a canonical archive site (via FTP or WWW, for example),
> does any necessary rearrangement to turn it into the original source
> tar file format described below, and leaves it in the current
> directory."
>
> Debian Reference 6.7.8.2 says:
>
> "A repackaged .orig.tar.gz.
>
> must be documented in the resulting source package. Detailed
> information on how the repackaged source was obtained, and on how this
> can be reproduced must be provided in debian/copyright. It is also a
> good idea to provide a get-orig-source target in your debian/rules
> file that repeats the process, as described in the Policy Manual, Main
> building script: debian/rules."
>
> So if currently the latest upstream release of sword is 1.6.0. Hence
> the version we are packaging is 1.6.0+dfsg-1. Now imagine our team
> finished packaging this version and it has landed in the stable
> release. Upstream by this time released 1.7.1. And our team packaged
> 1.7.1 and it is in unstable.
>
> So what should get-orig-source target do:
>
> 1) In both stable and unstable: Grab 1.7.1 and turn it into 1.7.1.dfsg
> 2) In stable: Grab 1.6.0 and turn it into 1.6.0.dfsg; in unstable grab
> 1.7.1 and turn it into 1.7.1.dfsg
> 3) Parse debian/changelog and create the tarball for the latest
> version listed there
>
> Cause now in our "big team" of two collaborators we have disagreement
> about this =D
>
> --
> With best regards
>
>
> Dmitrijs Ledkovs (for short Dima),
> Ледков Дмитрий Юрьевич
You will probably want to take note of bug #466550.
--
Regards,
Andres
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