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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