Re: Documentation on handling of orig.tar.gz files for Developer's Reference or for Debian Policy

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Hi Bill, hi all,

I'd like to come back to one point of your mail:

Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr> wrote:

> If you have a whole directory of binary files, you might consider
> making a new source package for them. (For example a Debian theme
> for a program).

I guess you really wanted to say "making a new, repackaged tar.gz file
for them". But wouldn't it be the cleaner approach, at least if it is
technically possible, to literally follow what you wrote: Create a
new (Debian native) source package for the theme, the binary package of
which can be either installed at runtime to change the appearance of the
program, or used as a build-dependency?

Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer