[Python-modules-team] Comments regarding python-pyramid_1.5.1+dfsg-1_amd64.changes

[Barry Warsaw]

On Jun 30, 2014, at 11:18 AM, Thorsten Alteholz wrote:

>in debian/README.source you wrote that the docs directory has been 
>removed. But it is still available in the source tarball. There might 
>have gone something wrong ...

Hi Thorsten, thanks for the report.

I think this may be due to a strange interaction between svn-buildpackage,
which the Debian Python and Zope teams use, uscan's semi-documented
d/copyright Files-Excluded header, and weirdness/buggyness in the d/watch file
name manging.

You'll see in d/copyright that I added a Files-Excluded header to trim the
non-free docs/ directory, and in fact, when I watch the output of
svn-buildpackage, I can see that the tarball is downloaded and repacked
without the docs/ directory.

However, if you look closely, you'll find three tar.gz files in the various
resulting artifacts.

% find . -name \*.gz
./tarballs/python-pyramid_1.5.1.orig.tar.gz
./tarballs/python-pyramid_1.5.1+dfsg.orig.tar.gz
./build-area/python-pyramid_1.5.1+dfsg.orig.tar.gz

% tar ztvf tarballs/python-pyramid_1.5.1.orig.tar.gz | grep docs/ | wc -l
0
% tar ztvf tarballs/python-pyramid_1.5.1+dfsg.orig.tar.gz | grep docs/ | wc -l
777
% tar ztvf build-area/python-pyramid_1.5.1+dfsg.orig.tar.gz | grep docs/ | wc -l
777

svn-bp uses the build-area tarball, which is how the docs/ directory sneaked
back in.

What to do?

I suppose it would be best to reject the NEW python-pyramid package, and let
me rebuild the binary package after manually shuffling the repacked tar.gz
into place.  Otherwise, I won't be able to upload a correct tarball until the
next upstream release.  I have that fixed upload ready to go now.

If you have any suggestions on how to fix the d/watch file so this won't be a
problem in the future, please do let me know.  Otherwise I'll ping the
appropriate mailing lists for advice.

Cheers,
-Barry
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