Il 07/06/2011 01:18, Kamal Mostafa ha scritto: > Ooops, I foolishly did not consider that the PDF's would be unsuitable > (their content is only a few images). I will ask the package author to > extract the images from the PDF's and ship them as .png's instead > (good?). SVG files would be even better. > I suggested that the package author (John Nogatch) build it as a native > package, since he created the software originally for Debian along with > its debian/ packaging. (There is no "orig tarball" or other repository, > and it hasn't been published anywhere else yet). > > I'm a newbie DD, so please advise -- is it not acceptable/proper to make > the package native in that case? (and if not, what does make a package > suitable for being a native package?). Native packages are usually limited to a subset of software designed for Debian and derivatives only. This doesn't seem the case here. Sometimes leaving debian/ directory in trunk/tarball is easier for upstream developers, but not for Debian maintainers. You could consider switching to format 3.0 (quilt) to solve this issue: http://wiki.debian.org/Projects/DebSrc3.0 -- .''`. : :' : Luca Falavigna <dktrkranz@debian.org> `. `' `-
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