Re: Upstream debian/ directory
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 04:21:03AM -0600, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 04:14:43PM -0800, Wesley W. Terpstra wrote:
> > Hi! I wanted to start a thread about whether or not having at least a
> > minimal debian packaging system in the upstream of a piece of software is a
> > good thing, a bad thing, or harmless.
>
> I find it a pain and wish upstreams wouldn't do it. The usual problem
> that results is that they have files in debian/ that I want to remove,
> but find I can't because you can't remove files in the Debian diff. If I
> find an upstream package with a debian/ directory, I'm likely to remove
> it in the .orig.tar.gz and sacrifice the benefits of having pristine
> source.
I understand. However, I am not talking about the upstream maintaining their
debian/ dir, but the debian maintainer maintaining the debian/ in the
upstream.
I think this also addresses the complaint debian and redhat are better at
packaging. :-)
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Wesley W. Terpstra <wesley@terpstra.ca>
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