❦ 5 août 2015 10:28 GMT, Fabrice Aeschbacher <fabrice.aeschbacher@gmail.com> :
> >> I wanted to ask for an inclusion in debian, but the policy says
> >> even if I'm upstream myself, I'm not supposed to have a debian/
> >> directory at all.
> >
> > There is no such policy.
> >
> > debian/ in .orig.tar might be slightly annoying for the Debian
> > maintainer, but that's it.
>
>
>
> I did also read on debian-devel that putting the debian/ directory in
> the same (git) repo has some drawbacks and is not recommended (at
> least not in the same branch). I cannot remember all arguments, but
> some can be found here :
> https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMentorsFaq#What.27s_wrong_with_upstream_shipping_a_debian.2F_directory.3F
The arguments all rely on .diff.gz which is not used anymore with 3.0
formats. I think the whole entry should be removed as there is now
little interest to try to enforce this rule. On the other hand, such a
"rule" makes us appear as too strict for some upstreams.
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