On Sun Dec 23 15:26, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 07:35:12PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > > > Sorry, but I disagree with this interpretation. For me a Debian native > > package is a package which contains the official debian packaging stuff > > in the upstream tarball. Since I'm also upstream for gdome2-xslt and the > > software has been used historically always as a Debian package, to me > > that is a native Debian package. > > > One of the packages in whose upstream maintenance I participate has a > -doc package with a ~5MB .orig.tar.gz. Are you suggesting that because > I keep the debian/ directory in the same VCS as upstream development > that I need to make a ~5MB upload everytime I make an upload to fix > something trivial? More to the point, when you fix something trivial under debian/ does that cause a new upstream release to happen? There are lots of reasons why you would want to make debian releases out of sync with upstream releases (in both directions). Matt -- Matthew Johnson
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