Re: camlidl: first commit on pkg-ocaml-maint alioth project

[jmarant@nerim.net (Jérôme Marant)]

Sylvain LE GALL <sylvain.le-gall@polytechnique.org> writes:


> 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. 

Then (as I said), a script building a tarball from the original tarball
or from the CVS should suffice.

Cheers,

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Jérôme Marant

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