Re: Sourceless but useless: how about ignoring some irrelevant files instead of repackaging?
Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes:
> 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.
> Why would you have to add anything to debian/copyright?
> debian/copyright is for describing the copyright and license of things
> in the package. You don't need to put information here about things
> that are explicitly *not* in the package.
debian/copyright is the appropriate place to put a brief description of
what was removed from the upstream source tarball and why, since it's
where we describe the provenance of the upstream source. But that should
be short.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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