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Re: sponsor upload cnrun-1.1.12



On Sat, 28 Jul 2012, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > BTW, Andreas -- isn't it time to file a patch-report for debhelper for
> > dh_installdocs (and probably dh_compress for exclusion) to include
> > debian/upstream by default under /usr/share/doc/<package>/ (which is
> > what I was doing "manually")? ;)

> IMHO it would be more apropriate once DEP12[1] is making some progress.
> If I were in the shoes of dh maintainers I would currently consider the
> debian/upstream file as some private fun of some strange scientists
> (yes, I'm stretching a bit far and I know this is not the case) as long
> there is no official decision.

isn't Debian a byproduct of "fun" in general? ;)

even if not accepted straight away, imho such bug report/patch might be
beneficial to "document" away this particular usecase for having
debian/upstream and could become a reference in DEP12.

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