[Debian-med-packaging] r12928 - trunk/packages/fis-gtm/trunk/debian

[Amul Shah]

On 02/07/2013 06:11 AM, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Amul,
>
> just another remark:
>
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 08:07:20PM +0000, Amul Shah wrote:
>> Modified: trunk/packages/fis-gtm/trunk/debian/get-orig-source
>> ===================================================================
>> --- trunk/packages/fis-gtm/trunk/debian/get-orig-source	2013-02-06 18:59:24 UTC (rev 12927)
>> +++ trunk/packages/fis-gtm/trunk/debian/get-orig-source	2013-02-06 20:07:20 UTC (rev 12928)
>> ...
>  From my perspective get-orig-source does not have any reasonable payload
> and is just "undirtying" the original tarball (which should rather
> itself contain some main source dir.)  Do you see any chance to convince
> upstream to deliver tarballs following the de-facto convention
>
>     <name-of-software>-<version-of-software>/<here_comes_the_code>
>
> If upstream has strong reasons to keep the tarball that way in principle
> dpkg-buildpackage can also cope with this (as far as I know - I never
> had to deal with this) - you just need to unpack once in a proper dir.
>
> Kind regards
>
>        Andreas.
Hi Andreas,
I seem to recall being told no before, but playing well with Debian is a high priority. :) I'll ask again if we can package it 
in a standard format.

thanks,
Amul




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