Bug#544981: debian-policy: Discourage native packages that are not tightly specific to Debian

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>]

On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 01:55:09PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 12:49:23PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> 
> Hmm.  I think that developers who insist on packaging their software
> natively are unlikely to be persuaded by anything I have to say, and I think
> that there's no existing policy that prohibits developers from doing this.
> That doesn't mean I agree that it's *acceptable*.

I am not sure I agree with the first part of this statement [1]

Is there a way to tell dkpg-source that the content of the Debian patch
should be the debian directory and the rest should go in the 'upstream
tarball' ? The other issue is how to handle the upstream changelog ?

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

Imagine a large red swirl here. 

[1] I maintain two native packages, but they were natives before I adopted
them and therefore this is not entirely my choice.