[Pkg-opennebula-devel] opennebula-4.12.3

[Dmitry Smirnov]

On Wednesday 05 August 2015 10:42:45 Olivier Berger wrote:
> However, I have a doubt.
> [...]
> that should be excluded from the .orig. Of course, getting rid of it at
> the build first stages could help, but no before. Removing from the
> .orig is only mandated in case of non-freeness.

We drop .JARs because they are pre-built binary files therefore they are not 
DFSG-compliant. I believe this is necessary because they may have been built 
using software not present in "main" section of the archive, have incorrect 
Manifest etc. As far as I'm aware, dropping .JARs from upstream tarball is a 
usual practice in Debian.


> I'm doubtful also about the rest, the "bower_components" stuff. Can you
> enlighten me (I'll habe a look at the OpenNebula release file to try and
> have more hints) ?

Sorry, I'm not sure I understand your question. All those files are non-DFSG 
because they are source-less or minified/pre-built (or both). Try not to drop 
them and you'll see lintian errors (E:) on some of them (in obvious cases).
Believe me, I know what I'm doing. :)


> That won't be necessary I think, but I'll feel more comfortable adding
> some details in the README.source about the repackaging of the
> Files-Excluded directive, so that there are some hints for future
> (co-)maintainers.

I'm beginning to think that we may have a generation of developers who only 
know how to build a Debian package using "git-buildpackage". ;)

I'm not entirely against importing upstream tarball to "upstream" branch but 
I just believe it is unnecessary... Maybe you can have a local "upstream" 
branch? (I'm not sure how to avoid pushing its tags though...)


> I'll try and see how that works with pbuilder, which I don't use by
> default.

So much troubles to make GBP work...

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 Dmitry Smirnov
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