Re: package author and maintainer

[Peter Karlsson <peter@softwolves.pp.se>]

Mattia Dongili:

> any suggestion?

For jwhois, where I act as upstream "release manager" and Debian
developer, I usually put the debian directory in the upstream tarball,
and then build it for Debian. I call the version -1, though, but the
diff is empty for the -1 version (it is nonempty -2). It is organized
upstream so that the debian directory is stored in the cvs repository
on a different branch, so if someone else in the team makes a release
tarball, they will not get the debian directory, and I would add it
manually to create the Debian release. This works well.

For turqstat, where I am the *sole author* and also put it in Debian, I
am treating it as a "pure" Debian package (i.e without a diff). People
occasionally complain about that, though, but I don't care :)

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