On 16.07.19 14:34, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: Hi, > In practice, that's not going to be a problem for most distributions. > The traditional way Debian-derived systems have done builds is > completely outside of git. So there will be a linux_5.2.orig.tar.gz > and a linux_5.2-1.debian.tar.xz. dpkg_source -x will first unpackage > the orig.tar.gz, and then the debian.tar.xz, and if the second > overwrites the first, it's no big deal. ACK. IIRC they already filter out debian/ directories when generating upstream tarballs - other upstreams already provide their debian/ stuff, too. > First, once it's checked in, I expect changes to the default > debian/rules file will be relatively rare. ACK. I currently don't see much reasons for future changes. If anybody sees something missing, just let me know, and I'll take it up for the next review round. --mtx -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult Free software and Linux embedded engineering info@xxxxxxxxx -- +49-151-27565287