Control: severity -1 wishlist Control: retitle -1 Determine which tarballs are repacked based on debian/source/format
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 08:49:50AM -0800, Matt Kraai wrote: > The documentation of the --repack option on the uscan(1) manual page > says > > After having downloaded an lzma tar, xz tar, bzip tar or zip > archive, repack it to a gzip tar archive, which is still currently > required as a member of a Debian source package. > > There are source packages in the Debian archive that use other > compression methods (e.g., 7kaa). Different compression methods are only allowed for non-1.0 sources (c.f., dpkg-source(1)). Repacking to .gz is a conservative measure, since we may not always be able to determine the source format being used. If one knows that they are using a 3.0 source package and the upstream tarball is in a valid format, then there's no need to use --repack. If we can determine that the package is using a non-1.0 source format, then it would be ok to reduce the set of extensions that get repacked. Cheers, -- James GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <james...@debian.org>
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