Bug#319388: extraneous files in mesa_7.0.1-1.diff.gz

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 19:02:01 +0200, Tormod Volden wrote:

> > Third - The Debian diff for mesa-7.0.1-1 looks very strange.  There
> > are a whole lot of files being created by it, outside of debian/,
> > including enormous blocks of what looks like upstream source code.
> > There's *also* a debian/patches directory, and logic in debian/rules
> > to use it.  As a result I don't know how you want me to generate the
> > patch.  Could you explain a litle about how the packaging is being
> > done?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > zw
> >
> 
> I also noticed this (reported it in
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/122994). These files (mostly in
> src/mesa/glapi/ and windows/VC6/mesa/ ) exist in upstream git, but not
> in the upstream release. I guess they are there by mistake, maybe the
> diff was made between a git-based tree and the upstream released tree?
> 
Yes, the package is built from git, so files which are in git but not in
the tarballs end up in the debian diff.  Why is that a problem?

Cheers,
Julien