Re: Some Packaging Questions

[Paul Tagliamonte <paultag@ubuntu.com>]

On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Christopher Baines <cbaines8@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am looking at trying to package some extra aircraft for FlightGear. As
> I think there are too many aircraft to package individually, I was going
> to package them in groups according to category (military,
> helicopters, ...), should I just use one source package or one source
> package per group?
>
> Most of the aircraft are release as .zip archives, I am assuming this
> means they will have to be re-archived in a better format, but do I
> archive the aircraft together, or use the quilt format to give many orig
> archives?

Humm.

I think perhaps this could be useful outside debian.

I wonder if you would not consider maintaining it as a sort of
"project", where you (as upstream) maintain the groups in .tar.gz
format (or similar), and have releases, and loads of documentation on
who owns what where.

You could then import those into Debian under the groups that the new
upstream releases in.

I have a feeling doing it in Debian might be a *huge* PITA.

>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
>


-Paul

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