Re: Question about native packages
>>"Nicolás" == Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org> writes:
Nicolás> Packaging it native is a perfectly valid thing to do, even
Nicolás> better than nonnative. Why? Because the Debian packaging
Nicolás> files can be used by anyone, not just Debian. Just as the
Nicolás> .spec files are now included in many packages.
But there is a trade off. Doing it native; you have to upload
the whole source tree even for a small change in the control file or
the rules file (and the changelog, of course); this may be suboptimal
were you authoring a package which is several MB in size.
manoj
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