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.
