Debian wants packages to consist of a pristine upstream tar ball, together with the patches and debian package information in the debian subdirectory in another tar file.
debian does not want to be responsible for every file in a git repository only those files in a upstream "release". And it wants a clear distinction between the files of the release and the changes made by the packagers. I find that the utility git-dpm works well for packagers handling these issues. -- Paul Elliott 1(512)837-1096 [email protected] PMB 181, 11900 Metric Blvd Suite J http://www.free.blackpatchpanel.com/pme/ Austin TX 78758-3117 --- "Encryption works. Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on. Unfortunately, endpoint security is so terrifically weak that NSA can frequently find ways around it." Edward Snowden
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