On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 01:35:49PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > Not really, I do not want to use README.source or something like this. > I have a *personal* policy: I will not sponsor any package if there is > no code I could run that recreates the source tarball. May be I'm to > strict and the sponsee might find some other sponsor. The Debian policy > change simply weakens my point where I think there are very good reasons > for.
There are two different situations: -- Given one upstream tarball and a Debian tarball, check you can regenerate the Debian tarball (so it has not been doctored) -- Given a new upstream tarball, generate a corresponding Debian tarball. Unfortunately, it is not always possible to write a script that will correctly anticipate the changes needed for a new upstream version. Doubly so for Files-excluded stanzas. In that case README.source can be useful. Cheers, -- Bill. <[email protected]> Imagine a large red swirl here.
