Re: debian directory included in upstream
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI a écrit :
What about the case in which the upstream maintainer is the Debian
maintainer? I create packages for a piece of sofware I've written.
That's my case (well...) and I decided to apply the "Separation of
Concerns" paradigm: software development and packaging are different
matters, so they are worked and versionned separately.
After a few month of usage, I clearly don't regret that choice and have
met several cases where using native packages would have been a mess.
I don't write the software *for* Debian, but I happen to package it for
Debian; that's how I think about it. "I" being the same person isn't a
reason for mixing different concerns.
The
debian/ directory is in CVS, naturally. It is currently distributed in
the .tar.gz file. Should it be removed? This would make things more
difficult for me, because in the case of a new version, I would need to
untar the new .tar.gz file and then copy the debian/ directory from CVS.
I suggest you use cvs-buildpackage. I use an arch equivalent and it's
like a dream.
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Hervé Cauwelier
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