[Fusionforge-general] Non-DFSG-free files in the Debian source package ?

Olivier Berger olivier.berger at it-sudparis.eu
Fri Mar 26 15:34:04 CET 2010


Le jeudi 25 mars 2010 à 10:21 +0100, Roland Mas a écrit :
> Olivier Berger, 2010-03-25 08:50:12 +0100 :
> 
>  There are, however, a few quirks:
> 
> - the .orig.tar.gz tarball used as the source package isn't the one
>   published on the FRS; instead, it is generated from the SVN repo with
>   “make orig”;
> 

How hard would it be to change that ?

It is common practice to package software that corresponds directly to
what others would download manually...

> - building from an SVN checkout requires telling dpkg-source to ignore
>   some files, particularly the binary files that are not in the
>   .orig.tar.gz, since they wouldn't be representable in the .diff.gz.  I
>   have the following aliases in my .bashrc file to deal with that:
> ,----
> | alias pdebuildff='pdebuild --debbuildopts -i"\"(plugins/fckeditor/www/_samples|plugins/wiki/www/lib/pear|hyperwiki.jar|MAP.pdf)\""'
> | alias pdebuildfflenny='pdebuild --configfile ~/.config/pbuilder/lenny.config --debbuildopts -i"\"(plugins/fckeditor/www/_samples|plugins/wiki/www/lib/pear|hyperwiki.jar|MAP.pdf)\""'
> `----
>   Note that these aliases are only useful when building from a checkout;
>   if you get and unpack the source package by different means, then no
>   trickery is required.

Ever though about svn-buildpackage ?

Best regards,
-- 
Olivier BERGER <olivier.berger at it-sudparis.eu>
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Ingénieur Recherche - Dept INF
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