Hi, First, I found the directory abi/src/pkg/deb contains really ancient stuff for Debian packaging which I think should be removed, since these are actually useless now. I don't have the commit privilege, so comitters, please do that.
Also I'm now thinking about adding the present Debian stuff for packaging to the AbiSource CVS under the directory debian/. How do you think? Rationale: I'm always worrying about the "legitimacy" of AbiWord packages for Debian. In a strict sense, the Debianized AbiWord would be considered as a derivative of the official AbiWord, since I at least add some Debian specific stuff. To avoid the complication, I can change the name of Debian packages to "abiword-personal-*" or whatever, but I think it's much better if we have the "offical" Debian packages in the Debian archive, because it would be mirrored all over the world and get rebuilt automatically on various architectures like hppa, ia64, sparc, powerpc, s390, etc. Also for both users and the maintainer, the different packages of the same program can be a PITA. So, if I add Debian stuff to the CVS repository, all my changes for Debian packaging are technically regarded as changes on the official AbiWord sources themselves, so those complication will possibly gone. But in this case, I'd like to have the commit privilege under debian/ since I change files fairly often as the Debian Policy changes or to fix Debian-specific bugs. Also it will help me to maintain packages via version control. I really don't want to make any small bits of Debian-specific changes into patches and send it and wait until someone commit it...I don't touch other parts anyway. Best regards, MH -- Masayuki Hatta [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
