On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Santiago Vila wrote:
> I downloaded mjpegtools-1.9.0rc2 and tried to build a debian package
> using the debian/* files inside the tarball.
> My machine is a powerpc machine running Debian testing (aka etch).
>
> Suggestions:
>
> 1. dpkg-buildpackage believes the package is version 1.7.0-1 because
> of the first changelog entry in debian/changelog. Please put something
I have wondered for a long time WHY a project needs to include
and maintain distribution specific information.
Of all the distributions only 'debian' as a directory in the
project. Why? It should be up to the distribution maintainers
to update/maintain/fix their build process - not the project's.
mjpegtools does not maintain SuSE, RedHat, Ubuntu (spelling?), etc.
Is Debian so special (or strange) that it requires a directory and
config files in the cvs tree of a project?
I'm primarily curious - the changes are trivial but my preference would
be to get out of distro specific maintenance.
Cheers,
Steven Schultz
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