On Friday 12 December 2008 01:16:00 Paul Gevers wrote: > >> So how to complain about packages that don't want to change the > >> policy? I filed a bug at upstream [1] but it was a wontfix. > > > > Why? What was the excuse? You'll need to persuade upstream that it is > > not acceptable. How you do that is up to you - one of the main skills > > of a maintainer is persuading upstream to fix things properly. > > By the way, the upstream respondent is the Debian maintainer, so I try > to persuade a colleague maintainer (not "my" upstream). The excuse is > that they keep the directory in sync with sid and that "other > distributions" should just remove the debian directory.
In that case it wouldn't hurt to suggest addition of even more insanity to their (lazarus's, right ?) top-level Makefile, like fiddling around with the `debian' directory name ;-) Their `debbuild' rule could move a hypothetical `upstream_debian/' (that what they would keep in their vcs and their "upstream" tarball as they do now with debian/) to 'debian/', then call dpkg-buildpackage as they do, and finally move it back to `upstream_debian'. This would still let them automatically build debs for whatever unknown reasons they have just to put them on SF, but would also free some room for diff.gz to apply a real debian/ to their unpacked upstream tarball, not containing debian/. Yes, that is ugly and I won't do that alone at home. -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 <people.fccf.net/danchev/key pgp.mit.edu> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
