On 30 June 2017 at 09:04, Kay F. Jahnke <_kfj@yahoo.com> wrote:
Is it a good idea to put the debian folder and it's contents under version control in my upstream repository, or should I have these files exclusively in the alioth repository?
It is recommended to keep code clear of any packaging scripts. Put them in a branch or separate repo. Packaging scripts have little or nothing to do with the code, so it should be possible to update either without tainting the other's history.
Also, one should be able to extract a pristine tarball from the repo and use that with any 3rd party packaging scripts - having those scripts in the same source tree as the code complicates matters.