Re: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released

From	Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.devel
Subject	Re: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released
Date	2018-04-11 23:10 +0200
Message-ID	<vDva9-2iq-7@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> writes:

> That is exactly what I wanted to express.  I do not mind the actual
> implementation but writing down in policy that there should be some
> common interface to obtain the upstream source as a fallback to uscan
> (and only as fallback if there is really no chance to use uscan) seems
> important to me,

Rather than documenting this fallback in Policy, why not add that fallback
directly to uscan?

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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Re: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org> - 2018-04-07 02:40 +0200
  Re: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> - 2018-04-07 08:10 +0200
    Re: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released Stuart Prescott <stuart@debian.org> - 2018-04-07 09:10 +0200
    Re: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released Sébastien Villemot <sebastien@debian.org> - 2018-04-07 09:30 +0200
  Re: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released Ole Streicher <olebole@debian.org> - 2018-04-07 11:00 +0200
    Re: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> - 2018-04-07 13:30 +0200
      Re: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released Ole Streicher <olebole@debian.org> - 2018-04-07 14:00 +0200
        Re: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2018-04-07 18:10 +0200
          Re: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released Ole Streicher <olebole@debian.org> - 2018-04-07 21:00 +0200
            Re: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released Andreas Metzler <ametzler@bebt.de> - 2018-04-08 08:00 +0200
              Re: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released Ole Streicher <olebole@debian.org> - 2018-04-08 11:20 +0200
                Re: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> - 2018-04-11 15:20 +0200
                Re: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2018-04-11 15:30 +0200
                Re: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org> - 2018-04-11 15:40 +0200
                Re: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> - 2018-04-11 16:20 +0200
                Re: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2018-04-11 23:10 +0200
                Re: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2018-04-12 04:20 +0200
                Re: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2018-04-12 04:30 +0200
                Re: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2018-04-12 04:40 +0200
                Re: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2018-04-12 15:10 +0200
                Bug#515856: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2018-04-11 23:00 +0200
                Bug#515856: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2018-04-12 00:10 +0200
                Bug#515856: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> - 2018-07-02 23:10 +0200
                Bug#515856: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2018-07-02 23:20 +0200
                Bug#515856: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> - 2018-07-02 23:40 +0200
                Re: get-orig-source and standardized source repacking (was: Debian  Policy 4.1.4.0 released) Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> - 2018-07-06 08:20 +0200
                Re: get-orig-source and standardized source repacking (was: Debian  Policy 4.1.4.0 released) Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2018-07-06 08:50 +0200
                Re: get-orig-source and standardized source repacking (was: Debian  Policy 4.1.4.0 released) Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2018-07-06 09:30 +0200
                Re: get-orig-source and standardized source repacking Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org> - 2018-07-06 12:20 +0200
                Re: get-orig-source and standardized source repacking (was: Debian  Policy 4.1.4.0 released) Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> - 2018-07-06 15:40 +0200
                Re: get-orig-source and standardized source repacking (was: Debian  Policy 4.1.4.0 released) Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> - 2018-07-06 16:40 +0200
                Bug#515856: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2018-07-03 01:50 +0200
                Re: Bug#515856: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> - 2018-04-12 08:30 +0200
                Re: Bug#515856: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2018-04-12 18:50 +0200
                Re: Bug#515856: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> - 2018-04-12 20:10 +0200
    Re: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2018-04-07 13:50 +0200
      Re: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released Ole Streicher <olebole@debian.org> - 2018-04-07 15:10 +0200
        Re: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2018-04-08 01:30 +0200
          Re: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released Ole Streicher <olebole@debian.org> - 2018-04-08 11:20 +0200
  Re: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released KAction@gnu.org - 2018-04-07 23:50 +0200
    Re: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2018-04-08 00:40 +0200
      Re: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de> - 2018-04-08 13:30 +0200
    Re: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2018-04-09 01:50 +0200

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