On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 09:29:56PM +0100, Michael Rasmussen wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi mentors, > > When packaging for Debian you have two distinct ways of doing it, > native versus orig. > > My question is, if I am in close contact with upstream and upstream > always adds my patches to upstream source is there then any reason for > not choosing a native package? My changes file is empty except for the > Debian changelog. > Yes. Native packages are usually for packages designed specifically for Debian and not intended to be used elsewhere. Even then, I believe it is still discouraged to create native package. Look at it this way. When you upload and forget a build-time dependency or something trivial, will upstream make a whole new release for you? Even if they do, is that smart? Also, a native package means that there is no .diff.gz. That means that every version creates a new .orig.tar.gz which consumes more mirror space. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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