On 01/29/2013 08:29 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: > Benjamin Drung <bdr...@debian.org> writes: > >> Other distributions gain from your extra work. Image the opposite. You >> want to package a software that is only available in a downstream >> distribution (e.g. Ubuntu or Linux Mint). Do you prefer to have a >> non-native format or a native format? > I'm not sure I see how it makes any difference. Either way, I would start > with their package and add Debian packaging files for Debian. The only > difference is some minor variation in what commands I run at the very > start of that process (namely, git-import-dsc for a non-native package > vs. git-import-orig for a native package). I have a hard time seeing how > this choice would make more than thirty seconds of difference to my > workflow. > Well, this happened to me once (a package in Ubuntu), and I asked upstream to switch to non-native, which he did.
The problem wasn't the work flow, but mainly tracking upstream version numbers. With a non-native, I can make the difference between packaging and non-packaging changes just by looking at the version number in Ubuntu, and I can even make a watch file to track it for me. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5108e928.10...@debian.org
