Comments regarding pyviennacl_1.0.1-1_amd64.changes

Thorsten Alteholz alteholz at debian.org
Mon May 5 18:11:35 UTC 2014


Hi Toby,

On Mon, 5 May 2014, Toby St Clere Smithe wrote:
> Since the source package is built directly from these upstream sources
> (no need to repackage, because the copyright situation is OK),

but in [1] there are other reasons mentioned to repackage.
Removing 4200 files out of 4300 seems to be a good point for repacking, doesn't it?
And with this "newly" introduced handling via debian/copyright, it should 
not be that complex.

   Thorsten

[1] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices.html#bpp-origtargz




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