Re: Tarball Debian Policy
"bilibop project" <quidame@Safe-mail.net> writes:
> I'm new on this list.
> I plan to create a source package to build several binary packages
> (including shell functions, shell scripts, udev rules and
> documentation). This will be a Debian native package. My question is
> about the tarball, especially files taking place outside of the
> debian/ directory:
You can do whatever you want outside of debian/. The tree can reflect
what paths the files would have on the filesystem, or separate them by
tool, or language, or role, or whatever else you find best.
> or what ? Can I do as I want or have I to follow some good examples ?
> I have browsed some other tarballs with different conclusions, and
> read documentation, but never found something saying: "this is
> required" or more simply "this is a good way", "this is wrong,
> because..." or 'this is let at the discretion of the upstream
> developer". Is it the case ?
It is this last one. Upstream decides how the upstream tarball looks
like.
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