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Re: Easiest way to Debianise a package?



* Ivan Vucica <ivucica@gmail.com> [080413 19:09]:
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> On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 12:44 AM, Simon Ruggier  wrote:
> >  If you're upstream, then for the sake of
> >  packagers, you probably want to release the data and source code in
> >  the same tarball, unless you like to release updates for them
> >  independently (i.e. if the source gets updated much more often than
> >  the data).
> 
> That probably means I should include all the data files in the
> EXTRA_DIST variable in Makefile.am, right?

As you want the data to end up somewhere, a dirname_data = 
might almost be a better idea, so that people using the source
and installing per make install also get a fully working setup

Hochachtungsvoll,
	Bernhard R. Link


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