Re: Best Packaging Practices - collecting ideas (and texts!)
> Although you might think this is obvious, it looks like a lot of people
> don't understand how to do non-native uploads. Almost all of my
Note that I've occasionally done this by accident, when new upstream
releases appear; on my cleaner packages, I can unpack tarball, cp -a
the old debian directory, cd in, dpkg-buildpackage, test the .deb and
see that it works, and then notice that I got no .diff, scratch my
head and realize I forgot to fake up an orig directory. (I should
just write a helper script that does the tar/mv/tar [and double check
the pathnames before unpack, etc] but then I suppose I'd have to
remember to use it...) IWBNI if something in that path
(dpkg-buildpackage maybe, but maybe not) would notice that I'm doing
something wierd this time...
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