Re: debian directory included in upstream

2005-04-19 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 07:49:08PM +0200, Herv=E9 Cauwelier wrote: > That's my case (well...) and I decided to apply the "Separation of > Concerns" paradigm: software development and packaging are different > matters, so they are worked and versionned separately. > > After a few month of usage, I c

Re: debian directory included in upstream

2005-04-14 Thread Geert Stappers
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 12:35:12PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 12:09:45PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 02:33:49PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > > > also sprach Margarita Manterola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.04.13.1359 > > > +0200]: [

Re: debian directory included in upstream

2005-04-14 Thread Geert Stappers
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 08:52:37PM -0400, Hubert Chan wrote: > > "Miriam" == Miriam Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Miriam> Hi, The author of one of the packages I was packaging for my own > Miriam> use has asked me to be the maintainer of the debian's > Miriam> package. The problem that

Re: debian directory included in upstream

2005-04-14 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 12:09:45PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 02:33:49PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > > also sprach Margarita Manterola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.04.13.1359 +0200]: > > > ??? Users of __stable__ won't ever get that piece of software, no > > > matter if

Re: debian directory included in upstream

2005-04-14 Thread Geert Stappers
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 02:33:49PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Margarita Manterola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.04.13.1359 +0200]: > > ??? Users of __stable__ won't ever get that piece of software, no > > matter if it goes into unstable, testing, or any other distribution > > you might

Re: debian directory included in upstream

2005-04-13 Thread Hervé Cauwelier
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI a écrit : What about the case in which the upstream maintainer is the Debian maintainer? I create packages for a piece of sofware I've written. That's my case (well...) and I decided to apply the "Separation of Concerns" paradigm: software development and packaging are differ

Re: debian directory included in upstream

2005-04-13 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Margarita Manterola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.04.13.1359 +0200]: > ??? Users of __stable__ won't ever get that piece of software, no > matter if it goes into unstable, testing, or any other distribution > you might make up. Users of stable can just as well add unstable deb-src links to

Re: debian directory included in upstream

2005-04-13 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 4/13/05, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It may be of value to users of stable who want to make their own > > package of the latest version of the software for some reason. > Then they should bug the maintainer to have it go into unstable. ??? Users of __stable__ won't ever get t

Re: debian directory included in upstream

2005-04-12 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.04.13.0234 +0200]: > It may be of value to users of stable who want to make their own > package of the latest version of the software for some reason. Then they should bug the maintainer to have it go into unstable. -- Please do not send copies o

Re: debian directory included in upstream

2005-04-12 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Miriam" == Miriam Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Miriam> Hi, The author of one of the packages I was packaging for my own Miriam> use has asked me to be the maintainer of the debian's Miriam> package. The problem that I found is that in latest versions he Miriam> includes his own version

Re: debian directory included in upstream

2005-04-12 Thread Hubert Chan
> "martin" == martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] martin> Tell him that the ./debian directory has no value when the martin> software is available from the Debian archive and that you need martin> to make modifications to it frequently. ... It may be of value to users of stable

Re: debian directory included in upstream

2005-04-12 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Stefan" == Stefan Fritsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Stefan> For sam2p I created my own orig.tar.gz with the debian Stefan> subdirectory renamed to debian.dist. I don't delete it because Stefan> the upstream changelog is in there (installed with Stefan> "dh_installchangelogs debian.

Re: debian directory included in upstream

2005-04-12 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.04.12.2327 +0200]: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2005/04/msg00106.html ). The > debian/ directory is in CVS, naturally. Use a branch! > It is currently distributed in the .tar.gz file. Should it be > removed? Yes, in my opin

Re: debian directory included in upstream

2005-04-12 Thread Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 06:27:52PM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > >I disagree. ./debian is the domain of the Debian maintainer, not of > >the upstream. Unless you are developing software *for* *Debian* > >(native), there is no reason why you should bother with ./debian at > >all. > > > What a

Re: debian directory included in upstream

2005-04-12 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that martin f krafft may or may not have written... > also sprach Margarita Manterola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.04.12. > +0200]: >> It makes sense for software developers to have their own ./debian >> directory so that they can use debian/rules binary to compile and test >> their soft

Re: debian directory included in upstream

2005-04-12 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
martin f krafft wrote: What does not make a lot of sense is to release the .tar.gz with the ./debian directory, as Steve Halasz said, it's perfectly valid to have it in CVS the important point would be to convince them not to include it in the release. I disagree. ./debian is the domain of the

Re: debian directory included in upstream

2005-04-12 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Steve Halasz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.04.12.2249 +0200]: > In my case some upstream developers were debian users who liked to > be able to build debs from CVS. This has been helpful since they > can make sure the app will work ok in debian before they release. > It's not strictly neces

Re: debian directory included in upstream

2005-04-12 Thread Steve Halasz
On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 22:40 +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Margarita Manterola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.04.12. +0200]: > > It makes sense for software developers to have their own ./debian > > directory so that they can use debian/rules binary to compile and > > test their softwar

Re: debian directory included in upstream

2005-04-12 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Margarita Manterola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.04.12. +0200]: > It makes sense for software developers to have their own ./debian > directory so that they can use debian/rules binary to compile and > test their software while developing it. Huh? Why not just use ./Makefile? > What

Re: debian directory included in upstream

2005-04-12 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Apr 12, 2005 4:44 PM, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sure, but there is no point in having ./debian available upstream. > It's backwards. It makes sense for software developers to have their own ./debian directory so that they can use debian/rules binary to compile and test their

Re: debian directory included in upstream

2005-04-12 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Adrian von Bidder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.04.12.2135 +0200]: > I think having the debian/ directory in the upstream source makes > sense if the packager works closely with the upstream author (or > is the same), ideally the package maintainer should have write > access to upstream's s

Re: debian directory included in upstream

2005-04-12 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Stefan Fritsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.04.12.2109 +0200]: > For sam2p I created my own orig.tar.gz with the debian subdirectory > renamed to debian.dist. Then it's not .orig anymore. The MD5 sum will differ. -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the list! .''`

Re: debian directory included in upstream

2005-04-12 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Tuesday 12 April 2005 21.16, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Miriam Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.04.12.2044 +0200]: > > I've tried to explain to him the reasons behind doing > > it the proper way, with a diff file, but I don't think > > I was able to do that too well. Quoting him: "The >

Re: debian directory included in upstream

2005-04-12 Thread Stefan Fritsch
Hi! On Tuesday 12 April 2005 20:44, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > "The > reason I added debian subdirectory is to distribute it > with the source files." > > Any suggestions on how to deal with that? For sam2p I created my own orig.tar.gz with the debian subdirectory renamed to debian.dist. I don't delet

Re: debian directory included in upstream

2005-04-12 Thread Steve Halasz
On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 20:44 +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > Hi, > > The author of one of the packages I was packaging for > my own use has asked me to be the maintainer of the > debian's package. The problem that I found is that in > latest versions he includes his own version of > debian's directory

Re: debian directory included in upstream

2005-04-12 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.04.12.2047 +0200]: > It then becomes a native debian package with no -# revisions. No, it does not necessarily. You can have an empty .diff.gz file, which would make sense in this case. -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the

Re: debian directory included in upstream

2005-04-12 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Miriam Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.04.12.2044 +0200]: > I've tried to explain to him the reasons behind doing > it the proper way, with a diff file, but I don't think > I was able to do that too well. Quoting him: "The > reason I added debian subdirectory is to distribute it > with t

Re: debian directory included in upstream

2005-04-12 Thread Carlo Segre
It then becomes a native debian package with no -# revisions. C.S. On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Miriam Ruiz wrote: Hi, The author of one of the packages I was packaging for my own use has asked me to be the maintainer of the debian's package. The problem that I found is that in latest versions he includes

debian directory included in upstream

2005-04-12 Thread Miriam Ruiz
Hi, The author of one of the packages I was packaging for my own use has asked me to be the maintainer of the debian's package. The problem that I found is that in latest versions he includes his own version of debian's directory inside the original tar.gz file as you download it from the web. I'