On Thu, Jan 25, 2007, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Evil. Don't change control at build time.
Well, all GNOME packages update their control in the clean target, and I think this is ok. The GStreamer packages update their packages in a special "maint" target which is manual; this works okish, but this gets forgotten from time to time. > Beter to generate a debian/control.new from control.in and then fail > (with a helpfull message) if that differs from debian/control. That's an idea if the above mechanisms displease ftpmasters. However, it goes against having two controls for Maemo and Debian. > I think the simplest thing is to branch. You might want to upload some > ix to stable-proposed-updates, security or testing-proposed-updates in > which case your changelog gets additional entries not present in the > unstable changelog and so on. A branch fits there perfectly. I'm not convinced this will work. I can imagine this will either result in a fork or in a large manual process such as Ubuntu's; in both cases, the process doesn't encourage pushing the patches back to Debian (IMO, and from what I've seen). -- Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
