From: Daniel White <daniel@whitehouse.id.au>
To: "Catalin Marinas" <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, "Karl Hasselström" <kha@treskal.com>
Subject: Re: [StGit] Debian packaging update
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 13:58:55 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080823135855.1a7aafd4@whitehouse.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b0943d9e0808221457w42a84fbgdf62e3ddbb417389@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:57:02 +0100
"Catalin Marinas" <catalin.marinas@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/8/22 Daniel White <daniel@whitehouse.id.au>:
> > Since it is now packaged by Debian is it still necessary to be
> > maintaining Debian packaging?
>
> This is mainly to make it easier for Debian maintainers. Someone might
> also want to build a .deb package for a different version or flavour
> of Debian.
>
I had been reading an article recently about packaging, and there was
the suggestion that upstream having packaging caused headaches when
merging new versions.
But I definately agree that the second case is handy.
> > Having a look at the Debian version, they have made quite a few
> > changes against our packaging. It might be worth getting some
> > patches from them that are not specific to Debian policy (like the
> > setup of bash completion).
>
Just to clarify, I believe the automatic setup of bash completion _is_
specific to Debian policy.
> I don't follow the Debian package much but I'll have a look to see the
> differences.
>
--
Daniel White
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-23 4:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-18 10:10 [StGit] Debian packaging update Daniel White
2008-08-21 22:35 ` Catalin Marinas
2008-08-22 13:51 ` Daniel White
2008-08-22 15:03 ` Daniel White
2008-08-22 21:52 ` Catalin Marinas
2008-08-22 21:57 ` Catalin Marinas
2008-08-23 3:58 ` Daniel White [this message]
2008-08-28 17:22 ` Sebastian Harl
2008-08-28 14:09 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-08-28 15:41 ` Karl Hasselström
2008-08-28 19:16 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-08-28 19:55 ` Yann Dirson
2008-08-28 19:24 ` Yann Dirson
2008-08-28 20:52 ` Yann Dirson
2008-08-28 22:27 ` Karl Hasselström
2008-08-30 22:33 ` Catalin Marinas
2008-08-31 7:00 ` Karl Hasselström
2008-08-30 22:36 ` Catalin Marinas
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