Re: Original sources, or not
Glenn McGrath, 2003-09-18 10:30:18 +0200 :
> 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.
Some upstreams ship files that we are not allowed to redistribute. Or
files that are non-free enough that one needs to remove them for the
source package to be acceptable in Debian (main).
> As far as i know, the problem is that our packaging tools cant handle
> the common tar.bz2 format, or having seperate patches.
Not only.
Roland.
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