Re: Bug#171221: openmotif: openmotif is not a native package
reassign 171221 debian-policy
quit
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 11:42:27PM +0100, Gerd Knorr wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 05:24:58PM +0100, Gerd Knorr wrote:
> > >
> > > "should" or "must"? I can't find anything in the policy saying
> > > I *must* package it this way, it just says it is usually done this
> > > way. Thus I hereby close that bug.
> >
> > It is specified in C.3.
>
> Well, it is exactly that section -- especially the last paragraph --
> which IMHO allowes to package the whole thing as one single tarball
> instead of .orig.tar.gz + diff. Native debian packages are listed as
> typical example for that, but I don't see noted that other packages are
> not allowed to be packaged that way.
I'm reassigning this to debian-policy so we can get a general opinion
on this section.
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