[Pkg-Cyrus-imapd-Debian-devel] .orig.tar.gz orig vs. repacked

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Ondrej Sury wrote:
> From practical point of view even 4) and 5) is waste of time :-).

Well, yes. And resources if it means calling tar -z during the build, or
bloating even more the diffs :)

> In Debian Gnome team we have following svn structure:
> 
> /desktop/<release>/package/debian/<files>
> /desktop/<release>/tarballs/
> 
> and we use mergeWithUpstream svn-builder flag on debian/ subdirectory.
> 
> That way each build starts with pristine upstream tarball and generates
> diff.gz properly.
> 
> But I will be happy if we can support points 1.-5.  (supporting only
> 1.-3. just makes life easier :-)

Agreed. I am against 5 (total waste of resources on buildds), and I have
very serious reservations against 4, since it would increase diff size.

We can usually use cyrus upstream tarballs without modification, I have not
had a problem with them during all the cyrus 2.1 years :-)  So if a broken
one ever shows up, we special-case it.

We could make all this dependent on a DEB_DOITLIKETHIS variable or somesuch,
with the default being 1-3 and 4,5 being developer-only land.  I am
certainly not make a fuss over someone commiting stuff like that, as it does
not bother anyone that doesn't need to use it :)

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