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Re: Newbie question: missing conf file



On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 10:27:08PM +0100, spam@klub.com.pl 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?

Not having .diff.tar.gz file is usually wrong. That's ok only for native
packages. 

> 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.

Nobody said you have to remove your debian/ directory from CVS. Just make
sure to export sources to .orig.tar.gz file and then build it using files
from debian/. 

Nice to see you're still working on this package ;)

regards
fEnIo

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