Wookey <woo...@wookware.org> writes: > On 2018-02-12 14:11 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> The tarball should contain only upstream code. Not patched code (then >> you arguably are making a fork). > > But we are encouraged to fork vigorously and often these days > (github...I'm looking at you). So Colin can very easily make a fork > and then package that and it will still be 'upstream'.
It is more work for him, but if he is willing to do: the major advantage is that this upstream may serve other distributions (like Fedora) as well, therefore enlighting more that just to Debian & derivs. Cheers Ole