On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 08:40 +0200, Maximilian Wilhelm wrote: > Hi! > > I was ask by a "upstream author" about the debian-dir in upstream > (release) thing where to find documentation about this. > > I did not find anything on the debian pages or via google by myself. > > Is there any text, paper, whatever piece of text "officially" > available on this? I'm not really sure what you mean, but I guess that by "debian-dir in upstream (release) thing" you mean the issue that upstream includes a debian/ dir in released tarballs. That is generally considered a bad idea. I'm not aware of documentation about this in the strict sense of the word, but here's some explanation. You can store the debian/ dir in upstream's VCS, but is is very undesirable to put it into released tarballs. It may seem handy now, but it will create a strange situation when you're no longer part of upstream, or when someone takes over package maintenance, does an NMU or a security update. You will then get a diff.gz that diffs the old and new debian directory. So: keeping it in your upstream version repository is fine, but make sure it's not released. When packaging a new upstream version, combine the tarball with the debian dir at that point. I'll have this added to the Debian Mentors FAQ. Thijs
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