On 09/20/2011 03:41 PM, Jerome Martin wrote: > Sorry, errata: > > I meant to ask about this part actually: > > On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Jerome Martin > <jxm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> The next >> change to that repo will be a split Makefile, the one in git main tree >> will take care of generating an official versioned out-of-tree tarball >> for distributions package maintainers use, and the one inside the >> tarball will provide expected package building targets. The currently >> empty documentation package will also be removed from that next >> version. > > Would it be better for the distro maintainers to instead have a > tarball generated without the RPM specfile, debian subdirectory and > packaging targets (no Makefile), but instead just plain (versioned) > sources and the setup.py as official upstream release means ? If so, I > would just add along a "tarball" target to the existing Makefile and > be done with it faster. > > Best, Yes, please. In fact, quilt and deb src format 3.0 strip them off. -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs Debian - The Universal Operating System
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