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Re: a few quick questions on gbp pq workflow

From	Jeremy Stanley <fungi@yuggoth.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.maint.python
Subject	Re: a few quick questions on gbp pq workflow
Date	2017-08-06 21:20 +0200
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On 2017-08-06 20:00:59 +0100 (+0100), Ghislain Vaillant wrote:
[...]
> 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?

Repacking an upstream tarball just to avoid needing to tell
dh_install not to copy files from a particular path into the binary
package seems the wrong way around to me, but maybe I'm missing
something which makes that particularly complicated? This comes up
on debian-mentors all the time, and the general advice is to avoid
repacking tarballs unless there's a policy violation or you can get
substantial (like in the >50% range) reduction in size on especially
huge upstream tarballs. Otherwise the ability to compare the
upstream tarball from the source package to upstream release
announcements/checksums/signatures is a pretty large benefit you're
robbing from downstream recipients who might wish to take advantage
it.
-- 
Jeremy Stanley

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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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