Re: Newbie question: missing conf file
On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 10:27:08PM +0100, spam@klub.com.pl wrote:
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> On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> >I take it you are upstream as well? I think the recommended way of
> >doing upstream+debian is to have the .diff include all of ./debian/,
> >such that other distros don't have to deal with it. Also, that way
> >you can do a Debian update without an upstream update.
> Yes, I'm author and Debian packager (Gentoo and PLD/Fedora in that matter,
> too). Removing debian/ from mainstream is a requirement or a suggestion?
> It is far move convinient for me to hold everything in one CVS repository
> than splitting this to pieces. I have additional files for Gentoo, for PLD
> and for Fedora/RedHat. Other distros are stored in the Port-linux
> directory, only Debian requires a specific directory to be present in the
> top directory. As for other distros, my DHCPv6 works even on those Windows
> things (sorry for cursing on the list). Oh well, they'll have to live
> with it.
Having debian dir in CVS along with upstream is not 1-to-1 related to
having debian dir in the upstream release, in stead of in .diff.gz.
You can, during packaging an upstream tarball, exclude the debian
directory from it, and then build the Debian package _with_ the debian
directory from CVS, so it shows up in .diff.gz.
> >Short description should begin with neither a capital letter nor an
> >article (A or The).
> Thanks for the info. lintian didn't complain about that.
> [5 minutes later, after upgrading lintian]
> Hmmm, ok. I have to fix that.
Both tests are being removed again on next lintian upload, as there is
no consensus amongst developers about the merits of changing this. I
myself have no strong opinion currently.
--Jeroen
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