Re: How to handle software which needs huge modification when packaging for Debian
2012/1/17 Björn Esser:
> - huge modifactions
Get those included upstream.
> - scripts to be replaced by 'debianized' ones
Make those scripts generic but configurable, send the required changes
upstream and drop in a second configuration file overriding the
defaults.
> - to be extended by custom scripts or progs
Not sure what you mean here.
> Shall the custom / replaced stuff be placed inside
> debian/source/include-binaries?
No, patch the source.
> Or should it be forked from upstream and seperately developed as
> debian-native?
Here you miss out on future updates from upstream so I would discourage that.
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pabs
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