Re: camlidl: first commit on pkg-ocaml-maint alioth project
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 05:01:53PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org> writes:
>
>
> > But, I can't understand your point: is it a problem to keep tarballs
> > there? They need not so much space and they are not going to be included
> > in the debian package, so what's the matter?
>
> My point is that we can find them as is elsewhere, and even mirrored
> sometimes. If the tarball is different from the pristine tarball,
> I'd better add a script which builds the new tarball from the old one.
> But you do as you like.
>
> I personaly will not include any tarball.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Jérôme Marant
Hello
Just a point concerning this question : sometimes upstream tarball are
not well maitained :
- no version in the tarball name ( big problem, since you don't know
what you are uploading, and you don't have the version that work with
debian script )
- must be modified upstream. I know it is not usual, but for example, if
the upstream include, some stuff like an original debian directory,
you have to remove it first, before using it...
- no tarball. For example, there is no tarball of mldonkey ( ;-> ). I
need to do the right cvs commit to get it...
So i return the question ? Why no tarball.
After all, there was a good reason to keep the source in debian, why do
we have to put it aside now... ( in the svn ).
Regard
Sylvain LE GALL
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