Hi, On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 01:58:55PM +1000, Daniel White wrote: > 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. Including a debian/ dir in the upstream VCS usually should not be a problem as long as it's not included in release tarballs. The main problem _I_ see when the latter is not given (and I suppose that's why a lot of people don't like it either) is that you'd get a really ugly diff between upstream sources and the Debian packaging (the .diff.gz of a Debian source package). Imho, keeping a debian/ dir in the upstream VCS is a nice service to the user and keeping it close to the "official" Debian packaging is even better. Cheers, Sebastian -- Sebastian "tokkee" Harl +++ GnuPG-ID: 0x8501C7FC +++ http://tokkee.org/ Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin
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