GAP sources for Debian
----------------------

To generate the tarballs used by Debian you must do the following:

1) Download gap4rXpY_nopackages.zip from
ftp://ftp.gap-system.org/pub/gap/gap4core/gap4rXpY_nopackages.zip

2) Use the script `tarball' (in the debian directory) as follows:
sh tarball gap4rXpY_nopackages.zip 
This script split the tarball in two and remove non-DFSG files, binary files
and irrelevant files.

3) You end up with a directory gap with the following tarballs:
gap_4rXpY.orig.tar.gz
gap-gdat_4rXpY.orig.tar.gz

4) Please check that the GAP release actually includes new content for gap-gdat
before reuploading them to the archive. It is often not the case and this
source splitting allow to take advantage of that, by avoiding a waste of mirror
bandwidth.

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Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>  Fri, 26 Jul 2013 23:13:05 +0200
