Re: package author and maintainer
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 11:52:15AM +0200, Mattia Dongili wrote:
> I'm a wannabe Debian maintainer (already applied the NM program). I
> packaged a small daemon (cpufreqd) of which I'm also the author.
>
> I was wondering If I need to package the sources with or without the
> .diff.gz archive.
>
> The Developer Reference says:
>
> If a package is developed specially for Debian and is not distributed
> outside of Debian, there is just one .tar.gz...
>
> I did not developed it specifically for Debian but it's not a problem to
> distribute the upstream version with the Debian modifications included
> since I'm also the upstream author.
There are varying opinions on this. Personally, I do not think it is a good
idea to package such software as Debian-native.
For example, if you need to update only the packaging, you need to make a
new release tarball, which will have no changes for anyone except Debian.
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- mdz
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