On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 12:11:57PM +0200, Jerome Martin 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. A tarball should always be the canonical upstream release. I really like it if it has proper autogenerated Debian and RPM packaging files, though - that makes building the latest release a whole lot easier for me. For RPM the spec has always been just a recommendation and rpm distro packager could just ignore it. For Debian the debian/ dir traditionally was a real pain, but apparently with the 3.0 format it's just fine, so please keep it. -- 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
