* Kevin B. McCarty (kmccarty@Princeton.EDU) wrote: > Matthew Palmer wrote: > > > I just had another thought -- make a -1 revision with an empty diff. Weird, > > but I can't think of any reason why it wouldn't work... > > Why would the diff be empty? I would think it should contain the debian > subdir in any case. It makes no sense to ship a debian directory in > generic source code released for RedHat, Windows, etc. (it would just > uselessly increase the tarball size) so it might as well go into the > Debian-specific diff.gz. > > Even as both upstream and maintainer, you (Brian Sutherland) might find > it useful to keep Debian packaging stuff separate from the main body of > code. Then if there is a bug in debian/rules, or Debian Policy is > updated to mandate some new control field, you don't have to release an > entirely new tarball just to fix a Debian-specific issue. I agree with this. Really, debian-native packages are debian-specific packages. I would strongly encourage you to *not* make this a debian-native package. Stephen
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