Re: Upstream debian/ directory
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 04:14:43PM -0800, Wesley W. Terpstra wrote:
> Hi! I wanted to start a thread about whether or not having at least a
> minimal debian packaging system in the upstream of a piece of software is a
> good thing, a bad thing, or harmless.
I find it a pain and wish upstreams wouldn't do it. The usual problem
that results is that they have files in debian/ that I want to remove,
but find I can't because you can't remove files in the Debian diff. If I
find an upstream package with a debian/ directory, I'm likely to remove
it in the .orig.tar.gz and sacrifice the benefits of having pristine
source.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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