On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:19:54 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Well I was told that this is also a bad idea, and a maintainer should
> not include those debian specific file directly in the upstream
> source.
> [Aim]
> So my question is: is this correct ?
> [Fire]
> If this is correct, I have to exclude the 'debian' directory when
> creating a release tarball. If this is ok to leave the debian
> directory, should the packager maintain a diff to the upstream source
> debian files, or should he/she just pretend those file are not there ?
Opinions are likely to be divided upon this, but my take is that
it is a royal pain in the posterior having to deal with upstream
./debian files, espescially if they chose a build system wildly
different from mine (cdbs,, or yada, or stacked patches). I've gone to
the extent of repacking upstream sources to delete the ./debian
directory, though mostly one can get away with overriding some files,
and removing others in the clean target.
manoj
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