Re: tarball free builds
On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 10:53:01AM +1000, skaller wrote:
> hi, currently Debian typically requires 'tarballs' to make source
> packages.
> I'm thinking of switching my project over so there's only one way to
> build from source: directly from svn.
> Is it practical to do this with Debian?
It can be done. The Debian maintainer will then prepare a tarball with
an svn export (checkout without the .svn directories) of your release
tag, and put the Debian changes in the .diff.gz.
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Lionel
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