Re: Self-maintained Debian packages best practice
On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 05:31:00PM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> On 30/11/14 16:30, Vincent Bernat wrote:
> > In the past, having a `debian/` directory upstream was a pain because we
> > didn't have a proper way to remove a file if needed. Nowadays, it is
> > perfectly fine if you use a 3.0 format.
>
> Fine in which way ?
It's fine because, for a 3.0 quilt package, "dpkg-source -x" unpacks
the .orig.tar.gz, removes all the debian/* files coming from upstream
tarball, if any, and then unpacks the *.debian.tar.xz file.
Previously, the end result was an ugly .diff.gz containing the difference
between "upstream" debian/* files and the new debian/* files.
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