Cyril Brulebois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Package: lintian > Version: 1.23.42 > Severity: wishlist > > Hi, > > that's a point unknown to or forgotten by some maintainers, when > repacking a tarball, one might[*] add a get-orig-source target to create > that tarball automatically.
Agreed. > Checking for the toplevel directory (inside the tarball) ending with > “.orig” might also be a nice lintian check to have (that's a “should” > from the developers reference). Yes, I think we may already have a bug open about this if dfsg is in the version string. It's also a good idea. It's just a convention, not policy, but it's a fairly persistant one. > Reading the devref again, it's is a “must” to provide detailed > information about the repack. I guess that encouraging people to script > their repack is the right thing to do. I think encouraging it is a good idea, and I don't have a problem saying in the lintian check that if it's not scriptable for some reason, they should still provide a get-orig-source target that prints out an error and then exits with status 2. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
