On 30-Nov-2013, Antoine Beaupré wrote: > It was actually refused, because of unsource minified javascript files.
Right. I've been learning about that in some of my recent packages too.
As a Debian package maintainer, we need to remove non-source (compiled,
obfuscated, etc.) files from the pristine source tarball and re-pack it to
a different tarball.
That's best done by explicitly re-packing the upstream source:
* In the ‘debian/changelog’, don't use e.g. “1.2.3” – the version string
for the pristine upstream source – because you need to work from a
modified source, and the Debian upstream version should be different to
clearly indicate that.
If the re-packing is for reason that the pristine upstream source
contains files without a DFSG-compatible license, then “1.2.3+dfsg.1” for
the Debian upstream version (and “1.2.3+dfsg.1-1” for the first Debian
release of that upstream version) is the convention.
If the re-packing is because there are files that need to be modified or
removed, but *not* because of DFSG problems, then “1.2.3+ds.1” for the
first Debian re-pack of pristine upstream source version “1.2.3”. (The
first Debian release of that would be “1.2.3+ds1-1”.)
* Then, in ‘debian/watch’, describe how ‘ustream’ will convert the Debian
upstream version to the pristine upstream version for download, and how
to re-pack that tarball to use for the Debian source package. For example:
opts="uversionmangle=s/(\d)([a-z]\d+)$/$1~$2/,dversionmangle=s/\+dfsg\.\d+$//" \
http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/c/coverage/coverage-(.+).tar.gz \
debian debian/repack
* Then, write a specific ‘debian/repack’ program. This program will perform
the specific re-packing by extracting the tarball, remove the non-source
files, and re-pack the tarball with the correct name for the requested
Debian upstream source version.
You can see the ‘python-coverage’ source package for how I've done this.
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