I began importing (with svn-load) some upstream "source" files in out SVN. This is something I do for samba packages maintenance (actually, this is something Steve Langasek convinced me to do) as it makes easier to manages new upstream versions and keep history of upstream changes....plus make it easier to merge upstream changes. Of course, that's much more obvious on complex packages and probably less immediately useful on our very simple packages, where "upstream source" is sometimes a single TTF file. Still, I did that for ttf-dzongkha and ttf-lao as an example. See debian/README.source for these packages to get the picture (that also involves tagging upstream releases in <package>/tags Here as well, I'm considering to do this in other packages. Davide, I think it would particularly be great for ttf-freefont and ttf-dejavu that are probably the two with the most complex history and upstream. --
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