On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 08:56:41AM -0700, Matt Brubeck wrote: > Carlos Enrique Carleos Artime wrote: > > > Bernard (upstream author) expressed his intention of including the > > "debian" subdirectory in the upstream tree. In fact, he maintains deb > > packages of Giac for Quantian (a mathematical-oriented Knoppix > > derivate) but didn't have the time for a careful observation of Debian > > policies [I'm wondering wheter I have that time, myself]. > > Some packages maintain a debian directory in the upstream CVS, but > exclude it from source tarball releases. That way, the official Debian > maintainer can easily use a different debian directory for the packages > uploaded to the archive. >
But WHY ??? IMNSHO it is a waste of effort to maintain a second debian directory. Co-operate with upstream for a good debian directory. I assume that upstream doesn't ship the debian directory because the feel not comfortable with their packaging. Just help upstream, at least communicate with them. Cheers Geert Stappers
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