[Dsc-maintainers] Bug#699917: Bug#699917: dsc-statistics: Should probably not FTBFS just because of diff being big

[Marc Haber]

On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 01:37:57PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 01:31:00PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> > severity #699917 wishlist
> > end
> > 
> > > The underlying bug, the "time bomb" in debian/rules, is still there
> > > (and that's why I'm changing the title).
> > > 
> > > I don't think packages should fail because of diff being big.
> > > 
> > > A warning message, maybe, but not a total failure.
> > 
> > A warning message will get overlooked, resulting in us delivering a
> > binary file for which no source is available.
> 
> Hmm, but this is the first time you talk about binary files.
> 
> If that's really the intent, would not be better to detect binary
> files as such (failing with a "hard" FTBFS) and not just "big diffs"?


We have been through this numerous times since 2010. Unfortunately,
the archives didn't yield the appropriate discussions immediately. If
I recall correctly, upstream's tarball only contained the
documentation as PDF. As this would violate Debian's principles, we
manually download the .tex source to the docs to debian/ during source
package build and verify that there have been no too significant
changes between the PDF and the .tex sources before doing the upload
to Debian.

Greetings
Marc

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