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 -- ,''`. Bartosz Fenski | mailto:fenio@debian.org | pgp:0x13fefc40 | IRC:fEnIo : :' : 32-050 Skawina - Glowackiego 3/15 - w. malopolskie - Polska `. `' phone:+48602383548 | proud Debian maintainer and user `- http://skawina.eu.org | JID:fenio@jabber.org | RLU:172001
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