[Pkg-jed-commit] r701 - jed/branches/0.99.19/debian

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Jörg Sommer <joerg at alea.gnuu.de> [2007-05-18 15:34]:

> > Oh, I see.  I did not think you referred to the "Simplified..." message,
> > because *_you_* put that in debian/changelog.
> 
> No, I've cited the diff from your commit.

You are right, *_I_* wrote that entry and put the "[JS]" label.  Sorry.

> > Anyway, I do not see problems with logging such changes in
> > debian/changelog.
> 
> I think it's useless for package users and blows up the changelog.

Fair enough, I will try to refrain myself in the future from documenting
such non-user-visible changes in the future.

> No, policy says:
>   `get-orig-source' (optional)
>        This target fetches the most recent version of the original
>        source package from a canonical archive site (via FTP or WWW, for
>        example), does any necessary rearrangement to turn it into the
>        original source tar file format described below, and leaves it in
>        the current directory.
>            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Okay, you beat me.

The next paragraph in the Policy says:

    This target may be invoked in any directory, and should take care to
    clean up any temporary files it may have left.

Our current get-orig-source rules fail to do the above, i.e. they only work 
at the top dir of the package source.  I will have to think a bit further
about this.

-- 
Rafael