Re: how to properly split up into python3-foo and foo-util package?

[Andrey Rakhmatullin <wrar@wrar.name>]

On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 12:16:51PM +0200, Gregor Riepl wrote:
> > > 5) Not really 100% Debian related, but in the Python sdist,... should
> > >     that contain the debian/*?
> > No, and the upstream source shouldn't contain debian/ anyway, as the life
> > cycles of packaging and upstream sources should be separate even if the
> > person doing both is the same.
> 
> This would then be a "native" package, and it's not recommended to use this
> package format in most cases:
Not necessarily, some people make non-native packages and store debian/ in
the VCS. It's not a good idea, though.