Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult <l...@metux.net> wrote: > I'm often seeing packagers directly putting dfsg'ed trees into their git > repos, w/o any indication how the tree was actually created from the > original releases. [...] > My preferred way (except for rare cases where upstream history is > extremely huge - like mozilla stuff) would be just branching at the > upstream's release tag and adding commits for removing the non-dfsg > files ontop of that. [...]
Hello, the main reason for having +dfsg versions is that non-distributable stuff is removed. Distributing these files in a Debian hosted GIT repository would not be workable, would it? cu Andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'