Timo Aaltonen <tjaalton@debian.org> writes:
I had a brief look at priv-wrapper packaging, and noticed it only
keeps the debian/ dir in git? The sssd-team packages have the full
upstream git as the base, with packaging added to the packaging
branch. I prefer those will remain like that :)
I usually also do the full git repo with upstream branch for most of the
packages I maintain, but for this new package I wanted to see if keeping
only debian/ in git worked, as I've had success with that in another
package. What is really the upside of having upstream code in Debian's
git? One downside is that it wastes space, although I don't think that
matters a lot these days. Another downside is that it confuses what is
really the "upstream" in case the Debian git-repo's view of what
"upstream" is differs from the real upstream.
Just to clarify, did you mean that you would want priv-wrapper to use
the same style as the other packages, or merely that I shouldn't change
the other sssd-packages to use this debian/-only approach? I wouldn't
do the latter. Generally if you feel there is any subjective style
matter you don't agree with, I'm happy to follow what you prefer. I
prefer to keep priv-wrapper as debian/-only if you think that is okay,
unless I learn some disadvantage with it that I am not aware of yet.