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Re: Bug#777132: surf-alggeo: blends: not present on webpage



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Hello Andreas, thanks for your review.

On 11/04/15 12:49, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 10:19:05AM +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
>> Fixed,
> 
> :-)
> 
> I had a check of the packaging and think it is fine so far.  However, I
> have a question about your way you are creating the source tarball.  It
> seems the debian/repack script is basically removing files from the
> original download.  Since some time this can be done via Files-Excluded
> in debian/copyright (see man uscan).  I personally (well, I'm biased
> since I invented this method ;-)) consider this way more transparent
> than separate scripts and the result is more simple packaging.  Do you
> have better reasons than "I was just not aware about this option" to
> not choose this way?

I was aware about this option.
I think this option is rather meant for clean upstream source:
here the upstream source tarball is polluted with .svn folders and a couple
of regular source files (C++ source + header) with an executable bit:
an ad hoc repack script seems then more appropriate. 

> 
> BTW, I consider d/changelog as way to long.  For a new package simply
> 
>    * Initial release (Closes: #777132).
> 
> is sufficient and the prefered form by ftpmaster.  If you have no good
> reasons to mention all the details please remove them.

I like so much to show my effort. Whatever, I have just removed it.

> 
> Kind regards
> 
>      Andreas.
> 


Best wishes,
Jerome
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