Re: [StGit] Debian packaging update

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>]

On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Karl Hasselström wrote:
> On 2008-08-28 11:09:29 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > Whatever people told you guys, the sad truth is that for the
> > overwhelming majority of packages, the mere presence of a debian/
> > dir upstream is taken as a warning sign by any seasoned Debian
> > developer (i.e. it is so often a problem, we take it as a bad sign).
> > It almost never helps. I have no idea where stgit is in that regard,
> > though. And I have NOT checked the "upstream version of the Debian
> > packaging", so please don't take this personally.
> >
> > But I can tell you that most DDs would prefer that upstream dumped
> > the debian/ dir, unless it is kept *really* current. And really, at
> > that point, you are losing a lot of the benefits of a downstream
> > maintainer anyway (i.e. you are not delegating the whole issue to
> > him, so that you can ignore the packaging and just pay attention to
> > stgit itself).
> >
> > Of course, this changes a lot when upstream is also a Debian
> > developer and spends a few hours per week keeping up-to-date with
> > Debian policy and toolset changes, etc.
> 
> So the optimal solution if we want to carry a debian/ directory (to
> allow users to easily build their own .debs, or whatnot) would maybe
> be to simply politely ask our Debian maintainer to send us patches or
> pull requests to keep it up-to-date?

Yes, but that assumes you release often.  Otherwise users get an old
version of the packaging all the time.

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  Henrique Holschuh