Re: upstream author == debian maintainer
On Sun, Jul 25, 1999 at 05:52:10PM +0300, Alex Shnitman wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 09:32:08PM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote:
>
> > 1) I am the author of program I am packaging. To save myself
> > some work, I have packaged it as a native debian package. Is this
> > allowed? (There was some discussion about it a long time ago,
> > and it seemed possible to do so)
>
> IANAD [I am not a developer] but it looks to me that if the program is
> useful for the general public (not only Debian users) it's better to
> not make it a native debian package -- what if someone else takes
> maintenance of it when you don't have time anymore; will it need to be
> converted?
>
Some packages have a spec. file to build an RPM in standard. Why can't we do
it with a debian/ directory ?
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