Re: [Update] Re: What to do if the upstream keeps debian directory in original tarball?
Am Donnerstag, den 26.01.2006, 19:30 -0800 schrieb Stan Vasilyev:
> On Tuesday 24 January 2006 13:14, Stan Vasilyev wrote:
> > I have a situation with a Debian package xdialog:
> > http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xdialog.html
> >
> > The upstream author, Thierry Godefroy <xdialog@free.fr>, insists on keeping
> > the debian changes inside the upstream tarball, orig.tar.gz. This
> > complicates the development process. First of all, when he makes a new
> > version of xdialog, he sends it to the Debian maintainer (me). I then have
> > to make changes to the debian directory and send him the changes. Finally,
> > he releases the new upstream with Debian changes already included.
>
> From the last e-mail I got from Thierry it looks like he wants to make a
> compromise. Since I annoyed him so much with my e-mails, he proposed to start
> releasing Xdialog in two versions: Xdialog-version.tar.bz2 file with debian
> directory and Xdialog-version.orig.tar.gz without the debian directory. Is
> that such a good idea?
It's a compromise with more work for him.
> At this point he thinks that Debian developers are a bunch of political
> fanatics who only care about the holy Debian Policy Manual and don't care
> about other distros.
Why we "don't care about other distros"? The Debian packaging files you
wrote are based on your decisions for Debian _only_, not for all Debian
based distributions. So forcing others to use your packaging files is
what I call "don't care about other distributions". Or whyy should the
source package on RedHat or Mandriva contain the Debian packaging files?
They are completely useless there but they increase the archive size.
I really don't understand this position.
Regards, Daniel
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