On 03/08/10 17:15, Josue Abarca wrote: > On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 05:04:20PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I recently developed an interest in Code::Blocks, which is not currently >> in Debian, and the current ITP has shown no real activity for over a year. >> However, an upstream developer does provide unofficial debian packages, >> and I would like to polish them and upload to Debian, acting as a >> sponsor rather than co-maintainer. >> >> So, the problem is that currently the debian packaging lives in the same >> subversion repository as upstream development, with the associated >> problems (native package, or in a best case scenario a very dirty >> diff; > > I think this is a good option to avoid the dirty diff: > >>From http://wiki.debian.org/Projects/DebSrc3.0 > > ... > > * You don't have to repack the upstream tarball to strip the debian > directory. (The debian directory is automatically replaced by the > content of the .debian.tar.{gz,bz2,lzma} file at unpack time) > > ... That still leaves me with the next issue: >> entanglement of upstream development with debian packaging development). I do not want to have to upload svn snapshots each time a debian-specific thing needs to be adjusted. -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler
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