> On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 12:06:02AM +0400, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > > I've created gcc-4.1-doc-non-dfsg package, intended for non-free. This > > package builds several binary packages (cpp-4.1-doc, gcc-4.1-doc, > > gfortran-4.1-doc, tree;ang-4.1-doc), that contain all files - man > > pages, info and html docs - that have been in gcc-4.1 4.1.1-10 package > > [last version before documentation removal], but are not in the > > current 4.1.1ds1-13 package. > > > > I'm going to upload this to non-free. > > But before that, I'd like interested people to look into the package, > > and give any comments they feel appropriate. > > Currently, I've put the package to > > http://zigzag.lvk.cs.msu.su/~nikita/debian/gcc-doc/ > > Why is this a native Debian package? I know that the tarball it is based > on is not one distributed as such by upstream, but it is based on files > from an upstream source. The way you do it now, you can't see what you > have changed in the documentation, because there is no diff.gz file.
If I separate files taken from upstream into '.orig.tar.gz', where should I place Makefile that I wrote to build documentation? Since this file is not from upstream, looks like should place it to .diff.gz But if I do that, .orig.tar.gz file will be of little interest itself, without .diff.gz If the only reasoning to split is informationl, I guess a README file in debian/, plus usage of dpatch if any patches will be added, will serve the same purpose better. Also, with currently implemented versioning scheme, new -doc packages get versions that dpkg will consider higher than old -doc packages that are removed from archive, but stay on users systems. So, if users have non-free in their sources, they will get new packages transparently. One more question for all - maybe better to set Maintainer field of these packages to debian-gcc@lists.debian.org ? Nikita
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