Re: file encoding and eol marker in orig.tar.gz

[Kumar Appaiah <akumar@ee.iitm.ac.in>]

On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 10:09:59AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> > Making changes to make the build work is always good, of course.
> > However, when changes are made for the Debian package, this should be
> > done in a way which doesn't hide them.  When a user sees a package where
> > the tarball is repackaged "because some files had to be removed", she's
> > not going to expect any changes other than the removal of some files.
> > For other changes, we have a nicely working patch system.
> In fact devref 6.7.8.2.2 discourages doing anything except removing
> files when repackaging.

If this is the case, I shall try to avoid it in the next revision.

Thanks for pointing this out.

Kumar
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