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Re: Self-maintained Debian packages best practice



On Sun, 30 Nov 2014 18:12:06 +0100, Santiago Vila 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.

Ok, good to know, but that's more targeting towards package building, not 
source code developing and maintaining. Does it imply that I should put 
the `debian` folder within my source tree now? Because as mentioned 
before, the last thing I want to do is to separate my source and my 
`debian` folder into two git repos. 



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