[Pkg-crosswire-devel] Processed: retitle 654462 to Doesn't contain source for waf binary code ...

[Daniel Svensson]

On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
>> As I mentioned, this is a question of a compressed file, so sure it's
>> binary encoded, but when you execute ./waf, it will decompress into
>> the ".waf-1.6.7-b271784c448ab906d5606267fb7f92c0" directory in the top
>> level directory.
>
> How can the Debian project rest assured that that the binary indeed is
> (only!) unpacking itself when executed?
>
> Also, that it is the case for _every_ new upstream release, not only
> once when you cared to investigate closely.

Which is why I referred to the script that produces the compressed
version so you can compress your own from waf upstream sources.

-- 
Daniel Svensson