Re: Already present debian directory in upstream sources
On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 01:17:32PM +0100, benj@debian.org wrote:
> > I'm packaging a piece of software that already has a debian/
> > subdirectory inside upstream sources. As it is a low quality package
> > (a nearly unmodified dh_make generated package), I've rewritten it
> > completely and have removed any occurrence of template .ex files as
> > well as README.Debian (I don't need it and this one was the dh_make
> > template).
>
> remove the debian/ subdir from the upstream tarball and include the new
> dir within the debian patch
If you are going to do that, either switch to a debian-native package, or
just kill the debian/ subdir in the upstream tarball, and add it back in the
diff.gz.
Also, request upstream to remove the debian/ crap permanently.
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