Re: a few quick questions on gbp pq workflow

[Ondrej Novy <novy@ondrej.org>]

Hi,

2017-08-06 14:53 GMT-04:00 Jeremy Stanley <fungi@yuggoth.org>:

Why would you need to repack a tarball just because it contains
prebuilt docs (non-DFSG-free licensed documentation aside)? I'm all

Lintian considers this as "bug": https://lintian.debian.org/tags/source-contains-prebuilt-sphinx-documentation.html

(pedantic, I know).

Pretty sure OpenStack at least would consider any content which
requires Debian package maintainers to alter tarballs prior to
including them in the archive as fairly serious bug in its software.

But they want to keep generated (read: useless for our orig tarballs) things inside release tarballs. 

And sdist orig tarballs are too big, because they contains prebuild things, FTP masters are not happy. (Thomas words).

Context: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/openstack-devel/2017-July/021447.html

... I've been already flamed by the FTP masters because small

packages like nova-compute-* became insanely huge (ie: megs instead of

kbytes). ...

I consider git repository to be better source of "source code" than sdist, which is built from that same git. But it's just about POV :).

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Best regards
 Ondřej Nový
 
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