Re: Packaging automation - separation of 'debian/' directory

[Ben Finney <bignose+hates-spam@benfinney.id.au>]

"Roberto C. Sanchez" <roberto@familiasanchez.net> writes:

> On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 02:03:28PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> > I've seen many recommendations that the 'debian/' directory should not
> > be part of the 'foo_X.Y.orig.tar.gz' tarball but should always be
> > added by the 'foo_X.Y-Z.diff.gz', even in the case of "I *am* the
> > upstream and I prefer to track the 'debian/' directory as part of the
> > source tree in my VCS".
> Check out tools like cvs-buildpackage or svn-package, depending on your
> chosen VCS.

Unfortunately, Debian doesn't yet have a 'bzr-buildpackage' package.

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