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Re: Easiest way to Debianise a package?



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On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 12:44 AM, Simon Ruggier  wrote:
>  If you're upstream, then for the sake of
>  packagers, you probably want to release the data and source code in
>  the same tarball, unless you like to release updates for them
>  independently (i.e. if the source gets updated much more often than
>  the data).

That probably means I should include all the data files in the
EXTRA_DIST variable in Makefile.am, right?

>  This is confusing, but if I understand your question, then my answer
>  is no.  You only want the diff to include Debian specific changes, not
>  upstream changes.  In most cases the debian directory and the files
>  within should be the only thing in the diff, but in the rare case that
>  you need something changed for the clean target to work properly, then
>  you might patch that in the diff as well.

Thanks, you understood it, and that explains it :)

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Ivan Vučica

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