From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sebastian Harl Subject: Re: [StGit] Debian packaging update Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:22:28 +0200 Message-ID: <20080828172227.GI1289@albany.tokkee.org> References: <20080818201036.7c2c00f8@whitehouse.id.au> <20080822235154.5e1f979c@whitehouse.id.au> <20080823135855.1a7aafd4@whitehouse.id.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="+1TulI7fc0PCHNy3" Cc: Catalin Marinas , git@vger.kernel.org, Karl =?iso-8859-1?Q?Hasselstr=F6m?= To: Daniel White X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Aug 28 19:49:39 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KYlbe-0006qX-E8 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:48:26 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755888AbYH1Rql (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:46:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755936AbYH1Rqh (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:46:37 -0400 Received: from mail.tokkee.org ([212.114.247.92]:60457 "EHLO albany.tokkee.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753765AbYH1Rq2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:46:28 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1437 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:46:27 EDT Received: by albany.tokkee.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0EA0A364001; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:22:29 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080823135855.1a7aafd4@whitehouse.id.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: --+1TulI7fc0PCHNy3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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" wrote: > > 2008/8/22 Daniel White : > > > Since it is now packaged by Debian is it still necessary to be > > > maintaining Debian packaging? > >=20 > > 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. > >=20 >=20 > 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 --=20 Sebastian "tokkee" Harl +++ GnuPG-ID: 0x8501C7FC +++ http://tokkee.org/ Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin --+1TulI7fc0PCHNy3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFItt7TEFEKc4UBx/wRAjU/AKCG9BH8xRxPfe0afi2RQEhiw8r2TwCdHPjh JpHWaz+JAUUQ1mMy4LJvfn4= =v8t6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --+1TulI7fc0PCHNy3--