Re: Accepted gdesklets-data 0.13.1 (all source)
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 04:38:51PM +0200, Javier Fern?ndez-Sanguino Pe?a wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 10:08:51AM -0400, christophe barbe wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 02:23:56PM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> > > Yes, gdesklets-data is a debian native package (ie: there is no upstream
> > > tarball corresponding to this archive).
> >
> > Thanks for the explaination.
> >
> > > -n version are revision on a same upstream tarball, but in this case we
> > > don't have any .orig.tar.gz ....
> >
> > Is there something preventing the use of a .orig.tar.gz tarball. It
> > would be nice to see a .orig.tar.gz containing only upstream bits and
> > the debian stuff in the diff, for review purpose and for bandwith
> > saving.
>
> Again. It's a debian _native_ package, there is no such thing as
> "upstream" in native packages.
That's an obviously circular argument. Why is it native if it wasn't
"written especially for Debian" (policy 3.2.1)?
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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