Hi Charles and the rest of the World, On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 09:01:04PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
in one of the packages I mainatain, upstream left some zlib and ncurses static libraries for Win32 in the source tarball. Without the copy of the zlib and ncurses sources.Now I will have to add a lot of stuff to debian/copyright, make a “dfsg” tarball, provide a get-orig-source target in debian/rules, and write a README.source file to comply with the Policy, and do the repackaging dance at each new upstream release. This is not the way I have fun.
How about just minimizing and simplifying the stuff you need to do? Would you find it interesting if you only needed to add these 3 lines: ---- debian/rules ---- include /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/upstream-tarball.mk DEB_UPSTREAM_URL = http://example.org/download DEB_UPSTREAM_REPACKAGE_EXCLUDE = lib/zlib.o ---- debian/rules ----Which would then provide the following command to pull new upstream sources and repackage tarball, all in same go:
debian/rules get-orig-sourceAbove is not yet officially part of CDBS, but is actively used for some years unofficially. See ghostscript, csound, srtp and uw-imap.
Oh, and you need not "contaminate" the rest of your packaging with CDBS to use above snippet. You do not even need to build-depend on cdbs, just have it installed when you need to get new upstream source - as the get-orig-source rule is not one of the core required build rules.
If there is some interest in this, I will speed up inclusion of that snippet with the official CDBS package.
Kind regards, - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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