Re: splat package

["Frank S. Thomas" <frank@thomas-alfeld.de>]

Hi David,

On Saturday 30 April 2005 14:46, David Clarke wrote:

> Why is it better to have the debian directory separate to the main
> tarball?  I had a read of the thread a little while ago about the
> developers including a debian directory, and am still unsure why this is
> neccessarily a bad thing if the person producing the debs is the
> developer.

Because it is less confusing for your non-Debian users. Your are producing 
source archives which have the debian revision included in their filename, 
like splat-0.1-2.tar.bz2. Imagine you release a new revision of the Debian 
package only with changes in the debian/ directory. You'd probably call it 
splat-0.1-3.tar.bz2 and all your non-Debian users will think that there is a 
new splat version available and download/install it. But what do they gain?
Changes in the debian packaging they don't care about. I'll consider this as 
an extra burden you put on your users.

Grüße,
Frank
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