[MonoDevelop] Tarball and binary files

Andres G. Aragoneses knocte at gmail.com
Wed Jul 16 16:26:38 UTC 2014


On 16/07/14 18:13, Timotheus Pokorra wrote:
> Hello Yannick,
>
> On 16 July 2014 16:01, yannick inizan <inizan.yannick at gmail.com> wrote:
>> NuGet wants recent certificates & Debian packaging via mozroots cannot
>> access to /root/.config.
>> you must download this packages before packaging or create tarball ;)
>
> Downloading the nuget packages is not a problem anymore. I have fixed
> that in my pull request, so that the certificates are all installed
> during make dist, and the dlls would become part of the tarball. I
> have tested this on Fedora.
>
> The question in this thread is: is it the desired behaviour, to
> include binary files in the tarball at all?

I think it depends on the distro's policies. In debian, for example, 
this would be strictly forbidden. And when this happens, the packagers 
modify the software with downstream patches to comply with this 
guidelines (in the debian case, they add the suffix 'dfsg' to the 
package name, to know that it has been "adapted").

One could ask Jo Shields (maintainer of mono and monodevelop packages in 
debian/ubuntu, one which already carries the aforementioned dfsg 
adjective...) what's the best thing to do here, I guess.




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