On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 11:51:41AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Nikolaus Schulz <microschulz@web.de> writes: > > Doesn't dumping several upstream tarballs in one Debian source package > > require something like that? > > No, they're unrelated. I guess you mean that in a very strict sense... We're talking about merging tightly related upstream packages because they may not warrant stand-alone Debian packages, aren't we? > Dumping unrelated tarballs together requires > repackaging the upstream source to create a custom .orig.tar.gz file, > documenting how you did that (I prefer doing so in debian/copyright), and > ideally creating a get-orig-source debian/rules target to redo the work on > an automated basis. Okay. I did consider such repackaging, but reading the developers reference regarding that topic made me very reluctant to do so. It's good to see this as a reasonable option; the actual composing of the right set of Debian packages will have to wait until I have the necessary understanding of all involved components. Thanks! Nikolaus
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