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Re: Upstream source and Debian package source



Ben Finney wrote:
> On 12-May-2005, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote:
> 
>>Someone may say that there is no .orig file. That's because upstream
>>author gives me access to project CVS. He preferred that, instead of
>>removing the /debian dir from the source code. He has his reasons to
>>maintain /debian dir, even after I have talked to him and explained
>>about distributing /debian dir on source code.
> 
> You still need to differentiate between what you get from the upstream
> package source (the foo.orig.tar.gz file) and your own changes as
> package maintainer (the foo.diff.gz file). The only common exception
> is for a package written natively for Debian, i.e. with no upstream
> source.

Yes... I really made a mistake.
Sorry about that.

I corrected this now.

Thank you Ben! :-)

Nelson



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