Bug#610298: phasing out tar-in-tar in source packages

2011-01-21 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:49:49AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : > > Considering all the above, it would be nice if policy could start to > discourage > tar-in-tar, at least with a "should" (not) requirement. A potentially > appropriate place where to mention that seems to be §4.8 "Restrict

Bug#610298: phasing out tar-in-tar in source packages

2011-01-20 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 11:39:26 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 08:24:25PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: > > And we have them for this reason; or put otherwise, we'd like to get > > rid of them which requires at least one of two things: [..] > > I don't mind deprecating bun

Bug#610298: phasing out tar-in-tar in source packages

2011-01-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 07:29:42PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote: > I don't think tar-in-tar source packages are the main obstacle to make > the assumption that apt-get source will deliver a clean separation > between upstream and 'local' changes. But I do agree that *if* 3.0 > source packages are 'a shou

Bug#610298: phasing out tar-in-tar in source packages

2011-01-17 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 19:29:42 +0100, Luk Claes wrote: > > tar-in-tar source packages, i.e. Debian source packages which contains > > upstream > > sources in compressed form and uncompress them on the fly during the build > > process, are a bit of a PITA. Indeed, they are -- we have a couple in t

Bug#610298: phasing out tar-in-tar in source packages

2011-01-17 Thread Luk Claes
On 01/17/2011 11:49 AM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > tar-in-tar source packages, i.e. Debian source packages which contains > upstream > sources in compressed form and uncompress them on the fly during the build > process, are a bit of a PITA. They are particularly so for tools who want to > do >

Bug#610298: phasing out tar-in-tar in source packages

2011-01-17 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi I second the idea of phasing out source packages the old "tar-in-tar", starting with a "should (not)" or a "Recommend (against)". :) ~Niels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - htt

Bug#610298: phasing out tar-in-tar in source packages

2011-01-17 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.9.1.0 Severity: wishlist tar-in-tar source packages, i.e. Debian source packages which contains upstream sources in compressed form and uncompress them on the fly during the build process, are a bit of a PITA. They are particularly so for tools who want to do sour