On 23-Jul-99 Radovan Garabik wrote: > While waiting to become a debian maintainer, I am trying to > "polish" my package(s), and I have a few questions: > > 1) I am the author of program I am packaging. To save myself > some work, I have packaged it as a native debian package. Is this > allowed? (There was some discussion about it a long time ago, > and it seemed possible to do so) >
No reason why not. > 2) Since debian/changelog and CHANGES are the same (obviously), I > could symlink one file to another. Which way it is better? > CHANGES -> debian/changelog or debian/changelog -> CHANGES ? > Or should I keep debian/changelog just a description of changes made to > package (such as recompiling against newer glibc), and CHANGES for > everything else? > A packaging changelog and then a code changelog is likely a good idea here. > 3) I am using debhelper. When it is updated to FHS, will it automatically > move document and manpages to /usr/share? (I think so... just asking to be > sure) > I suspect so, will know more when joey hess makes debhelper fhs complient.
