Re: native packages

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Andrew Donnellan <ajdlinux@gmail.com> writes:

> So essentially, store debian/ etc in the upstream VCS, but keep it out
> of releases and only add the directory when building a Debian package?

> Does this mean I should create a snapshot of everything except the
> debian files, then copy the debian files in to make a diff?

That's what I do.

I wrote up some notes at:

    <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/notes/debian/build-tools.html#upstream>

I need to expand that document much more when I have a chance, but
hopefully what's there will help a little.  (I have a tool that I use to
do all of this, for which I need to write some documentation so that I can
release it to the world.)

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>