[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Bug#250202: "debian/README.source" file for packages with non-trivial source



Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr> writes:
> On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 05:21:05AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:

>> Explaining where and how the .orig.tar.gz file was generated to me
>> falls into the category of saying where the upstream source was
>> obtained.

> It does not.

Yes, actually, it does.

You're entitled to a different opinion, but I can say canonically and
without possibility of contradiction that *to me* this falls into the
category of saying where the upstream source was obtained.

(Sorry, pet peeve.)

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



Reply to: