[Debian-med-packaging] clinica_0.2.1-1_amd64.changes REJECTED

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Leonardo,

while I was a bit astonished that ftpmaster needed that long for working
on Clinica (usually less than three days) this seems to be the
explanation for the delay.  I admit I have never seen such waf archives
and do not fully understand the problem ftpmaster has with this build
system - we just should respect their arguing.

So what could we do? Either you would create a new upstream tarball
containing the unpacked source (or a different build system) or we
create a get-orig-source target which follows the advise below and
includes the source code unpacked.

Kind regards

        Andreas.

On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 09:55:17PM +0000, Luca Falavigna wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> after discussing the issue within the FTP Team, we came to the conclusion that
> packages using waf in its current, compressed form do not ship all sources in
> their prefered form of modification[1].
> 
> While the letters of DFSG#2 and the Debian Policy could be fullfilled by
> shipping waf in extracted form in the source packages, we would really love
> to see the packages moving to a saner build system.
> 
> A quick tutorial on how to unpack waf to fulfil our requirements can be
> found here: http://wiki.debian.org/UnpackWaf.
> 
> Also, RC bugs have been filed against similar packages in the archive:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=ftpmaster@debian.org;tag=waf-unpack
> 
> [1] Yes, that phrase originates from the GPL, nevertheless Debian uses it as
>     definiton of "source".
> 
> Cheers,
> Luca
> (for the FTP Team)
> 
> 
> 
> ===
> 
> Please feel free to respond to this email if you don't understand why
> your files were rejected, or if you upload new files which address our
> concerns.
> 
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