On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 19:29:42 +0100, Luk Claes wrote: > > tar-in-tar source packages, i.e. Debian source packages which contains upstream > > sources in compressed form and uncompress them on the fly during the build > > process, are a bit of a PITA. Indeed, they are -- we have a couple in the pkg-perl group. > There are a couple of reasons for tar-in-tar source packages that I > remember coming across: multiple upstream sources combined as one Debian > source package, And we have them for this reason; or put otherwise, we'd like to get rid of them which requires at least one of two things: - ftp-masters accept very small packages (which they have declined to do in the past, a recent request for the current policy is #606411) - build tools provide a mechanism to build different sub-packages separately. dpkg with source format v3 alone does not help here (beyond unpacking etc. the tarballs), http://packages.qa.debian.org/pkg-components is a first step but still very "young" [0] I don't mind deprecating bundles with tarballs but just recommending against them is not enough to make them go away :) Cheers, gregor [0] cf. also http://raphaelhertzog.com/2010/09/07/how-to-use-multiple-upstream-tarballs-in-debian-source-packages/#comments http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/09/msg00208.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/09/msg00411.html etc. -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ -- GPG key IDs: 0x8649AA06, 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, & developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Tori Amos: Yes, Anastasia
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