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Re: dh-make-perl and overwriting files in debian/



On 15:06 Fri 19 Feb     , Deepak Tripathi wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org> wrote:
> 
>     -=| Xavier Oswald, Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 10:10:08AM +0100 |=-
>     > If debian/ exists, move it to debian.orig if debian.orig don't
>     > exists.
>     > If debian.orig/ exists, remove debian/ and create a new one.
>     > I think we should always keep debian.orig/ and not lose the very
>     oiriginal
>     > content.
> 
>     Sounds good.
> 
> 
> +1
> 
>     > Another possibility is to have debian.orig/ for the very original content
>     and do
>     > some debian.bak[1-N] if --make is runned multiple times.
> 
>     Not so sure about this. What do others think?
> 
> 
> sound good , but how many versions will you keep? or upto what level?

I think --make will not be called that much. Maybe a cyclic 2 level is enough to
keep the latest two .bak directories

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