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Re: update excuses.. how to read them



On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 06:06:02PM +0100, Daniel Kobras wrote:

> It's not as easy as that. Consider the upstream and the Debian maintainer
> being the same person. But still they want to keep separate upstream and
> Debian changelogs. Now, debhelpers will scream if you build a native
> package with separate changelogs, but you can't build a full non-native
> package either because there is no diff to the upstream sources. The

The normal arrangemnt for things like that is to have the upstream
tarball not contain the debian directory and the Debian diff be the
Debian-specific stuff therein.

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