On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:57:02 +0100 "Catalin Marinas" <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 2008/8/22 Daniel White <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > Since it is now packaged by Debian is it still necessary to be > > maintaining Debian packaging? > > This is mainly to make it easier for Debian maintainers. Someone might > also want to build a .deb package for a different version or flavour > of Debian. > I had been reading an article recently about packaging, and there was the suggestion that upstream having packaging caused headaches when merging new versions. But I definately agree that the second case is handy. > > Having a look at the Debian version, they have made quite a few > > changes against our packaging. It might be worth getting some > > patches from them that are not specific to Debian policy (like the > > setup of bash completion). > Just to clarify, I believe the automatic setup of bash completion _is_ specific to Debian policy. > I don't follow the Debian package much but I'll have a look to see the > differences. > -- Daniel White -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
