On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 09:25:43PM -0500, Mark Roach wrote: > On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 17:38 -0600, David Moreno Garza wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 17:28 -0500, Mark Roach wrote: > > > I am the author of EDSAdmin (Erudite Directory Service Admin). It is a > > > python+gtk application that aims for easy maintenance of LDAP > > > directories. I have packaged it and would like to see it included in > [..] > > You should also provide .diff.gz and .orig.tar.gz files to extract > > source packages. > > These are native packages i.e. The debian packaging info is part of the > upstream tarball (I am the author). It is my understanding that since > there is no difference between upstream and packaged versions no diff is > necessary... isn't this right?
Maybe, maybe not. If your only distribution you ever plan on supporting is Debian, then maybe it is. However, making upstream releases to fix Debian-only issues (including, possibly, nothing more than a recompile for a new ABI) is a serious pest. You can do all of the Debian-specific maintenance in a separate "debian" branch of your revision control system (you do *use* a good revision control system, don't you?) and make regular orig+diff packages. Trust me on this -- unless your package is *really* Debian-specific, you're much better off with orig+diff packages. Look at the history of libapache-mod-auth-mysql for a case study. - Matt
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