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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