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Re: a few quick questions on gbp pq workflow

From Ghislain Vaillant <ghisvail@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.maint.python
Subject Re: a few quick questions on gbp pq workflow
Date 2017-08-06 21:10 +0200
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On 06/08/17 19:53, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
> Why would you need to repack a tarball just because it contains
> prebuilt docs (non-DFSG-free licensed documentation aside)? I'm all
> for rebuilding those at deb build time just to be sure you have the
> right deps packaged too, but if the ones in the tarball are built
> from DFSG-compliant upstream source, included in the archive for
> that matter, then leaving the tarball pristine shouldn't be a policy
> violation, right? That's like repacking a tarball for an
> autotools-using project because upstream is shipping a configure
> script built from an included configure.in file.

You'd still have to clean the pre-built files, since they would be 
overwritten by the build system and therefore dpkg-buildpackage would 
complain if you run the build twice.

So, you might as well just exclude them from the source straight away, no?

Ghis

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a few quick questions on gbp pq workflow Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net> - 2017-08-06 17:00 +0200
  Re: a few quick questions on gbp pq workflow Jeremy Stanley <fungi@yuggoth.org> - 2017-08-06 18:10 +0200
    Re: a few quick questions on gbp pq workflow Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2017-08-06 18:30 +0200
      Re: a few quick questions on gbp pq workflow Ondrej Novy <novy@ondrej.org> - 2017-08-06 20:30 +0200
        Re: a few quick questions on gbp pq workflow Jeremy Stanley <fungi@yuggoth.org> - 2017-08-06 21:00 +0200
          Re: a few quick questions on gbp pq workflow Ghislain Vaillant <ghisvail@gmail.com> - 2017-08-06 21:10 +0200
            Re: a few quick questions on gbp pq workflow Jeremy Stanley <fungi@yuggoth.org> - 2017-08-06 21:20 +0200
              Re: a few quick questions on gbp pq workflow Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> - 2017-09-04 00:00 +0200
          Re: a few quick questions on gbp pq workflow Ondrej Novy <novy@ondrej.org> - 2017-08-06 23:50 +0200
            Re: a few quick questions on gbp pq workflow Jeremy Stanley <fungi@yuggoth.org> - 2017-08-07 00:30 +0200
              Re: a few quick questions on gbp pq workflow Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> - 2017-09-04 00:20 +0200
            Re: a few quick questions on gbp pq workflow Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2017-08-07 05:00 +0200
          Re: a few quick questions on gbp pq workflow Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2017-08-07 16:50 +0200
          Re: a few quick questions on gbp pq workflow Diane Trout <diane@ghic.org> - 2017-08-08 00:20 +0200
            Re: a few quick questions on gbp pq workflow Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2017-08-08 01:20 +0200
        Re: a few quick questions on gbp pq workflow Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2017-08-06 21:00 +0200
          Re: a few quick questions on gbp pq workflow Ghislain Vaillant <ghisvail@gmail.com> - 2017-08-06 21:10 +0200
        Re: a few quick questions on gbp pq workflow Barry Warsaw <barry@debian.org> - 2017-08-07 20:00 +0200
    Re: a few quick questions on gbp pq workflow Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> - 2017-09-04 00:00 +0200
  Re: a few quick questions on gbp pq workflow Brian May <bam@debian.org> - 2017-08-07 01:10 +0200

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