Re: Original sources, or not
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 11:40:12 +0200, Matthias Urlichs
<smurf@smurf.noris.de> said:
> Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> While I admit that pristine sources are a good thing (which is why
>> not having pristine sources is deprecated); it is way premature to
>> suggest making that a policy requirement.
> You might have misunderstood me. I advocate requiring either
> - package pristine upstream
> - include a shell script which creates an orig.tar.gz (not "the", as
> creating an identical file is impossible, but one
> which ends up with the same overall md5sum as detailed in my last
> mail)
Uhh, if you can't create the identical file, how can you get
one with the same md5sum? Have you cracked md5sum? What am I
missing?
> - a note in the copyright(?) file explaining what has been done
We can recommend doing this one.
manoj
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