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Re: ITP: gtk-gnutella -- The Most Efficient Gnutella Client



Hello,

On Thu 14 Mar 2024 at 01:29pm GMT, Jonathan Dowland wrote:

> On Wed Mar 13, 2024 at 6:52 PM GMT, Lucio Marinelli wrote:
>> gtk-gnutella is a server/client for the Gnutella peer-to-peer network.
>> It was previously included in Debian repository.
>> The source code is hosted in Github:
>> https://github.com/gtk-gnutella/gtk-gnutella
>> I already prepared the .deb package here:
>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/gtk-gnutella/files/gtk-gnutella/1.2.3/
>
> I took a peek, out of curiosity. I was surprised not to find a
> orig.tar.gz /  debian.tar.gz split; the package version scheme
> properly reflects a normal (non-native) package (1.2.3-1), but
> the source tarball has "./debian" in it;  and indeed, it looks
> like you're managing the debian packaging in the upstream repo.
> It's advisable to keep the two separate.

Not everyone agrees with this.  I think that same repo, non-native
versioning is often what's best for a package.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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