Re: Question about native packages
> 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.
Yes, but I see that as a collateral effect, an implementation detail. The
system could allow some kind of xdelta, or it could accept an URL+md5sum and
download the upstream source with wget.
Speaking about concepts, I find it very appropriate to have the debian
directory in the normal packages.
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