On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 08:31 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > Hi! > > Quoting a paragraph from: > http://lwn.net/Articles/283030/ > > > Debian's packaging policy resembles that of most other distributions. > > A Debian source package is supposed to contain a tarball of the > > upstream source distribution, without changes. Any > > distribution-specific patches are included separately and applied > > when the source package is prepared for building. > > Do we have a policy that all patches we apply in our packages need to be > included *separately*? None that I am aware about, except that we ask/encourage packagers to use clean upstream tarballs. As a consequence of this, we have a similar rule in effect. > Do we care or do we want to ignore this (minor) issue? IMO, we should. > (¹) Side note: I think it's wrong to add such a patch, as differing from > upstream in things like config file naming just creates trouble and > confusion for everyone. Agreed. Shipping customized tarballs, where an upstream is available should be banned. Ralf -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
