news <n...@ger.gmane.org> wrote on 12/11/2008 04:04:37 PM: > Hi, > > In article <200812111821.06249.to...@rastageeks.org>, > Romain Beauxis<to...@rastageeks.org> wrote: > > Please, make sure to seperate the debian packaging files from yourreleased > > software. There can be several debian package for a single > upstream release, > > so debian-related things should always be out of the software's code. > > I'm not sure I understand why the debian directory shouldn't be part of my > 'main' release? What problems does this cause?
It does cause real problems. Debian packagers are encouraged to ship pristine tarballs of the upstream source. But, packaging is somewhat difficult and has a lot of details that require attention to get right. Moreover, packaging practice changes with time. Essentially if you have a debian directory, what happens is that things start to get confusing very fast. Your debian directory will certainly be different from the one of the package that gets installed in Debian. Now when a user complains, is it because the user's package came from Debian with the "official" packaging, or did it come from somewhere with the "upstream" packaging. And, the Debian packager can't feed changes back to you, without triggering a change of revision number. This is irritating to every other distribution. Really, it is better just to not have a debian directory. > > Cheers > > Andy > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
