From: Sebastian Harl <sh@tokkee.org>
To: Daniel White <daniel@whitehouse.id.au>
Cc: "Catalin Marinas" <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, "Karl Hasselström" <kha@treskal.com>
Subject: Re: [StGit] Debian packaging update
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:22:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080828172227.GI1289@albany.tokkee.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080823135855.1a7aafd4@whitehouse.id.au>
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Hi,
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 01:58:55PM +1000, Daniel White wrote:
> 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.
Including a debian/ dir in the upstream VCS usually should not be a
problem as long as it's not included in release tarballs. The main
problem _I_ see when the latter is not given (and I suppose that's why a
lot of people don't like it either) is that you'd get a really ugly diff
between upstream sources and the Debian packaging (the .diff.gz of a
Debian source package).
Imho, keeping a debian/ dir in the upstream VCS is a nice service to the
user and keeping it close to the "official" Debian packaging is even
better.
Cheers,
Sebastian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-28 17:48 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
2008-08-28 17:22 ` Sebastian Harl [this message]
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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