[Pkg-mono-devel] Tangerine: why repackaged? (or: why +dfsg?)

[David Paleino]

Hello,
(tangerine maintainers CCed)

I was doing some "maintainance work" (I'm part of Pkg-Cli-Apps team) on
tangerine, and I just noticed it has a "+dfsg" in the version number. Frankly,
I can't understand why: I downloaded the original tarball from upstream's
website, and the only difference is:

$ diff -urN tangerine-0.3.0/ tangerine-0.3.0+dfsg/
Files tangerine-0.3.0/deps/log4net.dll and tangerine-0.3.0+dfsg/deps/log4net.dll differ
Files tangerine-0.3.0/deps/Nini.dll and tangerine-0.3.0+dfsg/deps/Nini.dll differ
Files tangerine-0.3.0/plugins/file/db4o.dll andtangerine-0.3.0+dfsg/plugins/file/db4o.dll differ
$ cd tangerine-0.3.0+dfsg/
$ find . -name "*.dll"
$

AFAICT, you just deleted those three precompiled .dll's. So, why the "+dfsg"
suffix? A "+debian", or "+ds" [1] would've been better IMHO.

Also, the repackaging wasn't really necessary. You just could've passed those
files to dh_clean in the clean target of debian/rules: they wouldn't have been
considered for the .diff.gz.

Anyhow, it's also good practice to provide a get-orig-source target in
debian/rules, to be able to recreate the repackaged tarball, without using
apt-get source (like I had to :( ).

The final question is: do you believe we can remove that +dfsg suffix, just
removing those files with dh_clean, making everyone happier? :)

Kindly,
David

[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2008/09/msg00203.html

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