Hello Ritesh, On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf <rrs@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Jerome Martin >> <jxm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> 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. > > Yes, please. In fact, quilt and deb src format 3.0 strip them off. OK. I suspected it would be more convenient for debian. Let's wait for Andy to chime in regarding preferred upstream tarball format for RHEL/Fedora too. Best, -- Jérôme Martin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe target-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html