Re: tarball free builds
On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 13:27 +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> 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.
Yeah, that sounds good.
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John Skaller <skaller at users dot sf dot net>
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