Re: Request from Debian packagers: please don't ship debian/ in tarballs
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 02:04, Piotr Szymanski wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Adeodato Simó (Monday 23 of May 2005 23:36):
> > modules for Debian (*)(*) have agreed that it'd be best if the source
> > tarballs provided by the KDE Project wouldn't include the debian
> > subdirectory that is present in its repository. This is pretty much
> > the general consensus among Debian Developers, too.
>
> That would be a negative, debian dirs provide manpages that are used by PLD
> (not every kde app has its own manpage you know). Please leave them in the
> tarballs.
I agree that manpages are a very usefull addon to kde packages but they should
not be included via the "debian" directory. The correct approach would be to
bug kde people to include the manpages in their source not into "debian/".
Mihai
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