On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 11:52:15AM +0200, Mattia Dongili wrote: > I'm a wannabe Debian maintainer (already applied the NM program). I > packaged a small daemon (cpufreqd) of which I'm also the author. > > I was wondering If I need to package the sources with or without the > .diff.gz archive. > > The Developer Reference says: > > If a package is developed specially for Debian and is not distributed > outside of Debian, there is just one .tar.gz... > > I did not developed it specifically for Debian but it's not a problem to > distribute the upstream version with the Debian modifications included > since I'm also the upstream author.
There are varying opinions on this. Personally, I do not think it is a good idea to package such software as Debian-native. For example, if you need to update only the packaging, you need to make a new release tarball, which will have no changes for anyone except Debian. -- - mdz
