Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, 06 May 2002, Roger Leigh wrote:
> > Is it common or good practice to keep the build for Debian separate
> > for upstream, or should I really get my changes incorporated upstream
> > first? It's just that I don't really see this happening all that soon
> > (it at all).
>
> Go ahead and fork it, as long as you are prepared to maintain the fork.
>
> > This will allow versioned Build-Depends. If there are regular
> > releases, then the numbers of conflicts in the -dev package will get
> > quite long. Should I keep them indefinitely?
>
> No, no. Use a Provides: for a non-versioned version of the -dev package,
> and conflict against that.
Ah, I see! That will save some effort ;-)
Thanks,
Roger
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