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

[Raphael Hertzog]

Hi,

On Wed, 13 Oct 2010, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
> CCing Dpkg Developers -- please reassign to dpkg-dev (dpkg-source)
> if you consider my concern valid

I really don't see why this sbuild bug should be reassigned to dpkg-dev.

> 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.

I think you are misunderstanding "-sn". It does not (and never did AFAIK)
extract only the packaging files.

It does however avoid copying the .orig tarball where the source is extracted
(which is now assured by the --no-copy option common to all formats)
and ensures it's also not extracted as a package-version.orig directory
(that dpkg-source can use in place of the .orig.tar.gz otherwise in the
source format 1.0).

Cheers,
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