diff files in package uploads (was: Re: watch)

[Bill Mitchell <mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com>]

On Sat, 21 Oct 1995, Ian Murdock wrote:

> [...] the only packages that
> don't need a context diff are packages written specifically by the
> Project for inclusion in the distribution, like dpkg.)

I've been taking the requirement for .diff.gz files in package
uploads as an absolute requirement.  I complied with this
requirement in the uploads I've done of packages written
specifically for debian.  In those cases, the .diff.gz file
I uploaded was a compressed file containing a single '\n'
char.  That seemed reasonable to me -- avoiding a class of
packages requiring special-case handling.