Bug#849851: [debian-policy] Document that rules clean target is not sufficient for removing dfsg problems
On Sun, Jul 2, 2017 at 11:22 AM, Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> wrote:
> control: user debian-policy@packages.debian.org
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>
> Hello Bastien,
>
> On Sun, Jan 01, 2017 at 01:37:25PM +0100, Bastien ROUCARIÈS wrote:
>> Following #849830 and generally source-is-missing lintian problems
>> could you document in 4.9 Main building script: debian/rules that
>> clean target must no be used for removing dfsg problem but the right
>> tools is repack
>
> I don't think that it should be a point of Policy that the rules clean
> target is not to be used for this purpose, because it is entailed by
> the ftp-master's interpretation of DFSG plus this sentence that we
> already have in Policy:
>
> Every [source or binary] package in main must comply with the DFSG
> (Debian Free Software Guidelines).
>
> However, as you say, we should document this to prevent others from
> tripping over it. As you suggest, such a note would need to refer to
> repacking the tarball. The Developer's Reference already contains a
> discussion of repacking upstream tarballs, so perhaps this should go
> there?
>
> Or we could use a footnote to Policy. I attach a patch doing that.
Really nice worded. Thank you
> --
> Sean Whitton
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