Re: Upstream debian/ directory
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 12:21:09AM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Colin Watson wrote:
> >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.
>
> One can remove files from within debian/rules, which gets patched by the
> diff.
True, but unfortunately hideous, and it has a bad habit of making your
local version of the source tree inconsistent from a freshly unpacked
tree if something goes wrong.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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