Re: non-native package versions
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 07:23:38PM +0100, Juan Jesús Ojeda Croissier wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Chow Loong Jin<hyperair@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 01,July,2009 12:27 AM, Juan Jesús Ojeda Croissier wrote:
> >> [...]
> >> And also a kind of retorical one (I guess I know already the
> >> answer...), do I really need to separate the app code from the debian
> >> packaging files? isn't there another option?
> >> I guess we'll have to slit them :-/
> > You don't. You just have to release the tarball without it (the debian/
> > directory). I know of applications which have the debian/ directory in
> > the upstream source code, but generate tarballs without them. If you use
> > autotools, this is very easy. Just run `make dist' in the configured
> > source directory. If you don't, well, you're on your own (hint: tar
> > --exclude=debian if all else fails).
>
> The problem we have right now is that we don't really use tarballs for
> release our apps.
Well, you're going to have to fix that before you can get a Debian upload,
at any rate. You can't upload a VCS revision as a source package (yet).
- Matt
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