[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#583337: reassign to dpkg-dev with request to support -sn for all formats?

Yaroslav Halchenko debian at onerussian.com
Wed Oct 13 13:54:39 UTC 2010


CCing Dpkg Developers -- please reassign to dpkg-dev (dpkg-source)
if you consider my concern valid

I got the same warning while playing with reprepro's changelogs.example.
It also relies on dpkg-source -sn -x to extract packaging only directory
from the sources to obtain copyright and Debian changelog files.

Although -sn is listed as a "Format: 1.0" specific, it makes complete
sense to have it supported for any other format to do precisely that --
"Ensures that the original source is neither copied to the current
directory nor unpacked".

As a result of the absent V3 support for -sn, dpkg-source does a copy of
the original sources, which in our case 1.7GB data package, thus not
acceptable situation and demolishing the benefits for V3 having a
neat .debian.tar.g.

Since there is no other cross-format option for dpkg-source to extract
Debian packaging only, I do not think it is viable to provide
format-specific handling in every dependent tool (e.g. sbuild,
reprepro) instead of fixing dpkg-source to provide such generic
functionality across all (or major) formats.

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