also sprach Sven Mueller <sm@leogic.com> [2004.10.27.1720 +0200]: > Why not? He wrote the script on Debian and is packaging it for > debian (and as far as I understood him, he is not publishing any > other package of it). I don't mean to say he shouldn't split it > into orig.tar.gz and diff.gz, but I would like to know the > rationale behind doing so. When the software is not about Debian, then it's useful to be able to bump revision for packaging and version for software changes. This would make sense for native packages too, but it's not the case, so there. > It would be a whole different thing if he was also publishing it > for other distros as a tarball (or distro-specific package). But > since he doesn't, I don't see any reason not to publish it as > a native package. Make it easier for other distros, come one... -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the list! .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org> : :' : proud Debian developer, admin, user, and author `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system Invalid/expired PGP subkeys? Use subkeys.pgp.net as keyserver!
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