Bug#677270: devscripts: Please provide a standard way of repacking upstream tarballs

2013-12-03 Thread James McCoy
Control: forcemerge 685787 -1 On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 10:09:17PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 19:37:55 +0100, Nicholas Bamber wrote: > > >* What outcome did you expect instead? > > I would like someone from the devscripts maintainers to adopt the tool and > > do whatev

Bug#677270: devscripts: Please provide a standard way of repacking upstream tarballs

2013-06-13 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 19:37:55 +0100, Nicholas Bamber wrote: >* What outcome did you expect instead? > I would like someone from the devscripts maintainers to adopt the tool and do > whatever might > be needed to make it suitable for inclusion in devscripts. The documentation > is availavble

Bug#677270: devscripts: Please provide a standard way of repacking upstream tarballs

2012-06-12 Thread Nicholas Bamber
Package: devscripts Version: 2.11.8 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? For some time the Debian Perl Group has maintained a tool, called repack.sh and documented at http://pkg-perl.alioth.debi