Re: Original sources, or not
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 02:01:25 -0500
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> wrote:
> Pristine sources are already a desired, but not required,
> characteristic. There are enough brain dead upstream packaging
> practices that we can not mandate pristine sources.
Dont go blaming "upstream" for debians problems, lots of other distro's
ship pristine sources, thats a poor excuse.
As far as i know, the problem is that our packaging tools cant handle
the common tar.bz2 format, or having seperate patches.
There was talk of a python based dpkg-source2 that had the features to
make this possible,
> This would be an undue burden on a number of packages. Have
> you done a survey to see how many packages would be affected? What
> purpose would be served by this target that is not already served by
> recording the upstream source location in the copyright file? If we
> do not ship pristine sources, it is unlikely that we would be able
> to generate a cryptographically pristine set by this mechanism
> anyway.
The purpose it would serve is greater transparency, which promotes trust.
Glenn
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