Re: Recommending get-orig-source for packages ?

[Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>]

Barry Warsaw <barry@debian.org> writes:

> On Dec 04, 2013, at 01:36 PM, Stuart Prescott wrote:
>
> >Having uscan call "debian/rules get-orig-source" is quite difficult to do in
> >a policy-compliant way (as already noted by Jakub) as the location for the
> >munged tarball is different. Having uscan call a debian/repack from d/watch
> >seems a little more sane only because there's no policy saying what d/repack
> >must do; having uscan do the repacking itself with something like Files-
> >Excluded from d/copyright is even nicer and devscripts in git can do this.
>
> If you have a good example of a d/repack recipe, please do add it to the
> LibraryStyleGuide wiki page.

We already have <URL:https://wiki.debian.org/onlyjob/get-orig-source>,
in particular <URL:https://wiki.debian.org/onlyjob/get-orig-source#Repackaging_orig.tar>.

Are you expecting ‘debian/repack’ to be significantly different when
repacking Python-language packages, as opposed to the general case of
repacking an upstream source tarball? What differences would be great
enough to warrant a Python-library-specific recipe?

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Ben Finney