Re: debian files in sourceforge cvs
On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 08:49:47PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 07:50:58AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 10:59:12AM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote:
> > > On 27/06/07, Tiago Saboga <tiagosaboga@terra.com.br> wrote:
> > > >I am working closely with upstream devs, and I am willing to manage
> > > >the debian files in the same sourceforge cvs. I understand that the
> > > >upstream tarball should not contain the debian files;
> > >
> > > I'm not quite sure, but I think that would be a 'Debian native' package.
> >
> > No, it should not be a Debian-native package. Please do not advocate this
> > without understanding the actual intent of a Debian-native package -- that
> > the package makes no sense outside of Debian.
>
> There is something else to consider. Even some packages which make no
> sense outside of Debian should not be Debian native packages. The
> reason is that the Debian native pacakage has no .orig.tar.gz and
> .diff.gz. Only a single .tar.gz. That means that *every* single
> package update requires incrementing the "upstream" version number
> and uploading the entire source all over again, even for trivial
> packaging-related changes.
Which for packages that *should* be Debian-native isn't a problem, because
their only possible destination is Debian anyway.
- Matt
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