On Wednesday 01 August 2007 18:47:22 Free Ekanayaka wrote: > FS> Import the upstream source to the "upstream" branch. > > We generally avoid importing the upstream source to save space. > > FS> Remove non-free stuff from the source in the "dfsg-clean" branch. > > That's interesting, I've never maintained a package for which I had to > prune the upstream source from non-free parts. Is this the case with > sound? Yes, because csound used to be under a non-free license, but changed to LGPL later on. However some of the opcodes could not be relicensed because the original author could not be reached/didn't want to relicense. I'm not sure how repacked sources can be managed without importing them into svn. > > FS> Do the actual packaging in the "master" branch. > > FS> I'm not sure if this is possible in subversion, or if you are using a > FS> different schema. Apparently you are only saving the debian/ > subfolder in FS> svn. > > I generally create draft source package and then: A draft source package is an empty one? > > svn-inject -o package.dsc svn+ssh://free-guest@svn.debian.org/svn/demudi > > If I need to change the upstream code, I'm always keeping the patches > under debian/patches. I'm doing that too (I use dpatch), but that doesn't work for repacked sources. -- Felipe Sateler
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