(please reply only to debian-dpkg, discussing this on two lists is not very helpful). The main issue I see people talking about is how to handle the debianisation stuff in a source (ie the debian/ subdirectory). The problem I had while writing this is that I could not simply make a tar-archive of the debian/ directory since that would mean we would no longer have a diff to the original if that also has a debian/ directory. I'm strongly opposed to that happening, which is why I opted for the debian.diff like we have now. Reading the discussion from last week three approaches have been suggested: 1. stay with the big diff 2. unpack upstream sources in a seperate directory and have the debian/ directory at the same level so we can use a debian/ tarbal 3. for upstream sources without a debian/ subdirectory ship debian/ as a tarball And of course: 4. debian native, just make one tarball 2 and 3 actually have a nice advantage: we can add a check in dpkg-source to see if all changes to the upstream source have a corresponding patch somewhere in debian/, and if not abort. 4 is a trivial case. Which leaves 1: should we still support that? Wichert. -- _________________________________________________________________ / Generally uninteresting signature - ignore at your convenience \ | wichert@liacs.nl http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D |
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