"Steve M. Robbins" <steven.robbins@videotron.ca> writes: > Well, for starters, he said the software is "an official GNU project", > not something written specifically for Debian. "Debian native", does, in my definition, not imply that the project must be mainly intended to run on Debian. Policy is not very clear about that, either. | Native Debian packages (i.e., packages which have been written | especially for Debian) This does not seem too decisive, and later: | [1] Though there is nothing stopping an author who is also the Debian | maintainer from using [debian/changelog] for all their changes, it | will have to be renamed if the Debian and upstream maintainers become | different people. No other mention of "native". > Besides, the diff will not be empty; it will include debian/rules and > debian/changelog, at the least. When upstream provides a perfectly fine debian directory (usually, because upstream is the same as the Debian maintainer), the diff need not contain anything. -- Robbe
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