[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#811070: libbio-das-lite-perl: orig.tar.gz duplication

[Niko Tyni]

On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 01:08:37PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 01:56:25PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote:
> > 
> > The original tarball of this package contains a tarball
> > with the same files. This seems to be an upstream
> > glitch rather than a packaging one.
> 
> You are perfectly right and I discussed this with Gregor Hermann in
> advance.  We decided that an MD5 sum identical orig.tar.gz is more
> important and I do not consider to fix this since I do not think this is
> a bug.  So I'm tempted to close this (or if you insist that this is a
> bug I'd in favour of tagging it wontfix).  Upstream is basically dead so
> I do not expect that they will release a new version but you can try
> contacting them if you think that this is really important to you.

Well, it is certainly a bug even if it's not going to be fixed.

If there had been an open bug stating it's a known issue, that would have
saved me a little work to investigate and file this one. So I think I'd
prefer that, but I don't really mind much. 'upstream wontfix' would be
fine by me.

An alternative would be to close this by documenting the issue in
debian/README.source, which "may also include any other information that
would be helpful to someone modifying the source package" (policy 4.14).

Thanks for your work,
-- 
Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org