Re: advice on changing to a non-native package
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 04:22:30PM -0400, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 04:22:23PM -0400, Eric Cooper wrote:
> > The discussion on debian-devel a while ago convinced me that I should
> > change the "approx" package to be non-native. I think I should keep
> > the source in the project/approx/ subtree (or just locally on the CMU
> > servers?), and keep only debian/ and upstream/ directories in
> > packages/approx/.
> >
> > If anyone has any suggestions, or reasons why this is a terrible idea,
> > please let me know.
>
> I don't remember the discussion,
Here's one of the messages:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/02/msg01194.html
> but can't you keep it as a native debian package, yet using a dash
> in the version? I use this scheme with some packages. When I make
> changes only to the packaging stuff I bump the number after the
> dash, when I make other changes I bump the part before it (of course
> setting to 1 what follows). Lintian gives a warning, but it is
> considered to be bogus.
That solves part of the problem, but the other reason is to separate
out the Debian-specific part of the package, so it could be picked up
more easily in the future by other distros or maintainers.
--
Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u
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