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Re: source packages and upstream source

maor@ece.utexas.edu (Guy Maor)  wrote on 28.02.97 in <87hgiwk0wx.fsf@slip-52-10.ots.utexas.edu>:

> The only change allowed to an upstream source package is renaming the
> top level directory.  If diffs have been applied, even if they do not
> originate with Debian, they should be part of the .diff.gz.
>
> The get-orig-source target in programmer's 3.2.1 is currently
> optional.  Perhaps it should be made mandatory?

Not necessarily. The process involved might be tricky, or not really  
generalizable.

For example, for my doc-iana package, I'm getting the files from my local  
IANA mirror. What good would a "get-orig-source" target do? Either I  
couldn't use it, or nobody else could, or it would involve setting up a  
local mirror exactly the same way I did. Not good either way.

The really important stuff is "this is the ftp directory I got the stuff  
from, and this is what I did to it", I think. (And it may not always be an  
ftp directory, either.)

So, perhaps this would be a compromise:

1. MUST specify how original sources were got

2a. If original source archive is useable as-is (we need to list the  
conditions), do use it as-is.

2b. If original source archive needs manipulation, then, given a directory  
containing only the original source archive(s), have a script that creates  
the debian version of the archive. Skript MUST be included in source  
package - say, as "debian/rearchive-source" or something. This script MAY  
be specific to the current source version.


Some examples what such a script might do:

* untar original archives into a directory. Rename that directory. Retar.

* un-shar several original mails in a subdirectory. Tar that up.

* (for stuff like the net* packages.) Untar several original archives,  
maybe from different places. Possibly prune away some unneeded  
subdirectories? Retar.

Or even strange stuff like this:

* Copy some web pages. Tar them up.

3. We could also say: MUST include md5sums of above-mentioned directory  
contents before start of script, if repacking is done.

MfG Kai