On Fri, 06 Nov 2009, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 09:56:03AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > What I can do however is add a supplementary option like > > --create-empty-orig that would help bootstrap the process for your > > specific case (that would not encourage repacking an upstream source > > tree). > > Why not simply allow not to have any .orig.tar.gz at all ? I mean, there > are other .orig.tar.gz files in his case, why insist on having an empty > package_version.orig.tar.gz ?
Because it's too late for such a design change IMO (and dak check for the presence of the right files, etc). I did not think of this case when I wrote the code, it was more intended for stuff like have the main software in orig.tar and supplementary tarballs for extra plugins, translations, but not for creating our own collection of several upstream projects. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
