* Giulio Paci <giuliopaci@gmail.com>, 2012-11-09, 00:56:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=466550There is a very long discussion about Debian policy §4.9. All what I asked in my previous emails seems to have already been asked and discussed there. From what I read there, seems that the get-orig-source should download latest source and not the current source (that is what I implemented).
I don't believe there's consensus that downloading newest-possible upstream version is the desired semantics. I think that downloading "current" version is more useful. And it doesn't matter that much, as long as there's an easy way to adapt the code to one's preferences. After all, this target is run by humans only.
-- Jakub Wilk