Dear Yukiharu and Jeremy, thanks for your answers.
Yes, I know about git-buildpakcage and will use it in last ressort. There are multiple reasons why I prefer to base my packages on the upstream Git repository when it exists. First, in my experience, this tremendously eases the exchange of patches between us and upstream. Second, some upstreams start to prefer releasing tags instead of tarballs, especially for release candidates. Lastly, the Git repository is the source, while some files in the tarball are autogenerated. While we have a long-standing tolerance for some kind of autogenerated files, I think that it is preferable to use the source directly. So, are there other suggestions ? Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140713044722.gg12...@falafel.plessy.net
