Re: get-orig-source and standardized source repacking (was: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released)

2018-07-06 Thread Simon McVittie
On Fri, 06 Jul 2018 at 08:16:12 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > Just yesterday > I had an example where the upstream download archive is lacking some > files from upstream SVN which need to be merged in to enable building > the software[1]. This often happens in Autotools packages whose upstream dev

Re: get-orig-source and standardized source repacking

2018-07-06 Thread Ben Finney
Simon McVittie writes: > The only times repacking the orig tarball is required are: > > […] > - it isn't available in a format supported by dpkg (with the extreme case > of this being that there is no orig tarball at all, only a VCS repository) A case more extreme: the work is not distributed

Re: get-orig-source and standardized source repacking (was: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released)

2018-07-06 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 08:27:13AM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Fri, 06 Jul 2018 at 08:16:12 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > Just yesterday > > I had an example where the upstream download archive is lacking some > > files from upstream SVN which need to be merged in to enable building > > the

Re: get-orig-source and standardized source repacking (was: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released)

2018-07-06 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 08:27:13AM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Fri, 06 Jul 2018 at 08:16:12 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > Just yesterday > > I had an example where the upstream download archive is lacking some > > files from upstream SVN which need to be merged in to enable building > > the

Re: A message from CMake upstream: announcing dh-cmake

2018-07-06 Thread Kyle Edwards
On Thu, 2018-07-05 at 14:04 -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > From what you write above I tend to think that simply by not using > dh-cmake whatever upstream has defined as packaging it will be simply > ignored (ie, it will become a "standard" CMake project). Yes, this is true. d

Bug#903134: ITP: milib -- library for Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data processing

2018-07-06 Thread Steffen Moeller
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Steffen Moeller * Package name: milib Version : 1.8.4 * URL : https://github.com/milaboratory/milib * License : Apache Programming Lang: Java Description : library for Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data processin

Re: A message from CMake upstream: announcing dh-cmake

2018-07-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 11:59:58AM -0400, Kyle Edwards wrote: > I have a question about this (and I apologize if this is slightly off > topic): VTK includes "convenience copies" of third-party libraries it > uses to avoid "dependency hell", and also because we've made > modifications to them that h

Re: A message from CMake upstream: announcing dh-cmake

2018-07-06 Thread Kyle Edwards
On Fri, 2018-07-06 at 21:00 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > If the libraries in question are DFSG-free themselves, there's no > DFSG issue and you don't need to remove them from the tarball (and > we'd generally encourage not modifying the upstream tarball > unnecessarily for upload to Debian).  The p

Re: A message from CMake upstream: announcing dh-cmake

2018-07-06 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 04:40:44PM -0400, Kyle Edwards wrote: > On Fri, 2018-07-06 at 21:00 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > If the libraries in question are DFSG-free themselves, there's no > > DFSG issue and you don't need to remove them from the tarball (and > > we'd generally encourage not modify

Re: A message from CMake upstream: announcing dh-cmake

2018-07-06 Thread Geert Stappers
On Sat, Jul 07, 2018 at 12:25:15AM +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 04:40:44PM -0400, Kyle Edwards wrote: > > On Fri, 2018-07-06 at 21:00 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > If the libraries in question are DFSG-free themselves, there's no > > > DFSG issue and you don't need to r

Re: A message from CMake upstream: announcing dh-cmake

2018-07-06 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 07 Jul 2018 00:25:15 +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 04:40:44PM -0400, Kyle Edwards wrote: > > On Fri, 2018-07-06 at 21:00 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > If the libraries in question are DFSG-free themselves, there's no > > > DFSG issue and you don't need to remove