On mar., 2012-01-03 at 22:12 +0100, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > A package in NEW brought this matter to our attention, and after > discussing the issue within the FTP Team, we came to the conclusion that > the submitter of this bug report is correct: packages using waf in this > form do not ship all sources in their prefered form of modification¹.
And out of curiosity, how is that different from tarball-in-tarball (or even just tarballs, fwiw) or sources packages containing compressed data? > > While the letters of DFSG#2 and the Debian Policy could be fullfilled by > shipping waf in extracted form in the source packages, we would really > love to see the packages moving to a saner build system. > > A quick tutorial on how to unpack waf to fulfil our requirements can be > found here: http://wiki.debian.org/UnpackWaf > -- Yves-Alexis
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