[tryton-debian] tarball compression

[Mathias Behrle]

* Raphael Hertzog: " Re: [tryton-debian] tarball compression" (Sat, 25 Jan 2014
  18:15:54 +0100):

Hi Raphael,

I noticed that already on tryton-fr with great pleasure!

I will upload tryton-account-fr to mentors soonish. Furthermore I will compose a
list of the outstanding packages for Tryton. All packages are already
packaged (as you may have seen on debian.tryton.org) and have ITPs. Based on
this list I would be pleased to get your input what to do next.

Most urgent at the moment is tryton-modules-timesheet-cost [1], which blocks
tryton-modules-project-revenue.

Thanks already,
Mathias

[1] http://mentors.debian.net/package/tryton-modules-timesheet-cost


> Hello Mathias,
> 
> I recently joined the list as I started using Tryton for my company. I
> can probably sponsor some of your uploads. In the short term, I'm
> particularly interested in tryton-account-fr. :)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> On Sat, 25 Jan 2014, Mathias Behrle wrote:
> > * Mathias Behrle: " Re: [tryton-debian] DM for python-sql (was: Migration to
> >   alioth)" (Sat, 11 Jan 2014 19:51:02 +0100):
> > 
> > Hi Andreas,
> > 
> > just asking, not urging: did the mail below come to your mind?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Mathias
> > 
> > > * Andreas Tille: " Re: [tryton-debian] DM for python-sql (was: Migration
> > > to alioth)" (Wed, 4 Dec 2013 08:53:53 +0100):
> > > 
> > > Hi Andreas,
> > > 
> > > > PS: I have not forgotten tryton-modules-timesheet-cost but I'm waiting
> > > >     for an answer about the recompression issue.  I will not upload
> > > >     until you give acceptable reasons why you did the recompression
> > > > which is IMHO not conform to Debian policy.
> > > 
> > > Reading back and forth Debian policy I couldn't find any reference to the
> > > compression of the orig tarballs. Perhaps you could point me in the right
> > > direction, if I missed something.
> > > 
> > > The only reference I found to this subject is in the Debian Developers
> > > Reference [1], which contains explicitely 'shoulds', but not 'musts'.
> > > 
> > > So I am trying once more to convince, that the current way is ok
> > > with regard to Tryton repositories:
> > > 
> > > The main and only reason to have a valid checksum on a source tarball is,
> > > that you intend to reuse the remote tarball for packaging/build purposes.
> > > This is exactly not the case with sourcefull git repos as the Tryton git
> > > repsoitories are. When importing the original source into this kind of
> > > repos, the source is immediately forked completely from the upstream
> > > source (which IMHO is one of the very good reasons to do so). From now on
> > > you are building from the forked sources, independent from further
> > > availability and integrity of the remote source tarball. The source for
> > > packaging is the one provided by the pristine-tar branch, and nothing
> > > else. And this one must be byte-to-byte identical to the one uploaded to
> > > the archive.
> > > 
> > > Finally I think, that this is justification enough to qualify as good
> > > packaging practice:
> > > 
> > > - Complete fork of the original source
> > > - Persistent and permanent availability of the sources independent from
> > >   upstream sources (AFAIS also an advantage in legal aspects, because we
> > >   redistribute GPL and thus are able to provide the sources either in the
> > >   packaging VCS or on the archive)
> > > - Advantage of reducing bandwidth by compressing to a state-of-the-art
> > >   compression
> > > 
> > > At least for me this seems not to be a policy question, why I currently
> > > see no reason to escalate to d-devel.
> > > 
> > > Could you please re-evaluate on the base of given arguments?
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Mathias
> > > 
> > > [1]
> > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices.html#bpp-origtargz
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > 
> >     Mathias Behrle
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