On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 23:45 +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 09:25:43PM -0500, Mark Roach wrote: > > > > 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.
It sounds like you and Peter are saying pretty much the same thing. And it did bug me just a bit to bump the version number just to change my build-depends :-) Yup, I use svn, which is not supported by SourceForge unfortunately. I need to figure that situation out. Thanks, Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
