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Re: debian ocaml task force - what to put on SVN?



On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 02:50:46PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> For the rest of diffs, I usally use dpatch and I put all my patches
> are located in <package>/debian/patches. Patches are applied
> at debian/rules build, and unapplied at debian/rules clean.

I've just read the documentation and it looks fine to mine, I think we
should use it for changes outside the debian/ directory.

> X uses DBS which is not very handy. In that case, we can provide
> a shell script that build the proper tarball from the original
> source. Usually, we don't put tarballs in repositories.

dpatch seems to me cleaner than DBS so forget my example, it was just
because I've never seen dpatch.

> If you have time, you can start it. "pkg-ocaml-maint" as project
> name (the leading "pkg-" is mandatory).

Ok for the name and ok for starting the project, but why "pkg-" is
mandatory?

> And don't forget to follow the rules posted by Wichert about asking
> for SVN (cf. d-d-a).

Sure.

Cheers.

-- 
Stefano Zacchiroli  --  Master in Computer Science @ Uni. Bologna, Italy
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