I think that this can be the last question we need to answer before
starting the project[1]?
I found rather tricky to use CVS for full handling of debian package of
which we are not also upstream authors. I've used a bit cvs-buildpackage
but I've not found it very handy.
So my proposal is to keep on the Alioth SVN server only the diffs from
the original tarball, eventually including in the debian directory a
file which mention against which upstream version those diffs have to be
applied.
In case of simple packages which requires no changes to upstream
directory we can keep simply the debian subdirectory, in other case I'm
not sure what to do, but I guess we can use the "other way"(TM) to
package debian stuff which I've seen in packages like X or similar.
Those packages include the original tarball as is and a set of patch
which are applied by don-t-remember-which debian tools during the
package building process.
I've never used this system but I will be very happy to learn something
new (in addition to SVN :-)
What do you think about it?
Cheers.
[1] well we have also another important question: who start the alioth
project? If nobody else step forward, I volunteer ...
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Stefano Zacchiroli -- Master in Computer Science @ Uni. Bologna, Italy
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" I know you believe you understood what you think I said, but I am not
sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant! " -- G.Romney
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