Re: RFS: 'snap2' rsync-based backup program with GUI
* Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> [100612 06:49]:
> > One of the ways dpkg-source v3 differs from dpkg-source v1 is that any
> > debian/ directory in the orig.tar.gz is removed before the
> > debian.tar.gz is unpacked. So debian.tar.gz cannot be empty and the
> > upstream debian/ directory if any is irrelevant.
>
> That is not compliant with what it *SHOULD* do. If there is a debian
> dir in upstream (again, anyone showing me the policy point forbidding
> that) then files in their should be replaced or whatever, but
> it is not correct (IMHO) that these files are removed.
No, it is exactly correct and one of the important improvements of v3
that the .orig.tar.gz's debian/ dir is completely removed.
Otherwise one either gets problems with files that by their sheer
existance confuse helper scripts you cannot easily remove
or needing some absurd way to specify how to remove them.
If the contents of .debian.tar.gz becomes the contents of debian/
you have total control in an easy to understand way.
Bernhard R. Link
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"Never contain programs so few bugs, as when no debugging tools are available!"
Niklaus Wirth
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