No, if I understand correctly, one starts with an upstream package whose debian dir will get removed during the unpacking and the upstream source is not kept in VCS, just patches necessary to get a good deb. Those patches, if any, can then be sent upstream if it seems appropriate.
Sent from my iPhone On Apr 7, 2013, at 10:52, Jordi Sayol <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/04/13 15:23, Tom Browder wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Jordi Sayol <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On 05/04/13 15:31, Tom Browder wrote: >> ... >>> As this is a big change on deb package, I propose you, and Christopher as >>> well, to create a parallel deb building process by coping of "misc/debian" >>> into "misc/deb-testing" and "sh/make_deb.sh" into "sh/make_deb-testing.sh", >>> and you developing everything on it, and I'll keep the "stable" deb version >>> till your fork was mature enough. >>> >>> What do you think about? >> >> Well, I just put this to the Debian group under which brlcad is >> assigned (science-maintainers): >> >>> Note that the BRL-CAD team is fully supportive of Debian and they have >>> agreed to have a debian tree in the source tree so I may just work >>> there until we have something ready for critique. Will that be >>> satisfactory? >> >> And they responded: >> >>> Please don't. Need them separated from upstream (it is common we have to >>> upload several revisions of the same upstream version). They are anyway >>> removed automatically by our tools. >> >> So I guess I should do as they say. The link to the brlcad package on >> their site is: >> >> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=debian-science/packages/brlcad.git > > For me is ok. I don't know what's the standard procedure. Do you have to > commit there all brlcad sources too? > > -- > Jordi Sayol > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Minimize network downtime and maximize team effectiveness. > Reduce network management and security costs.Learn how to hire > the most talented Cisco Certified professionals. Visit the > Employer Resources Portal > http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/employer_resources/index.html > _______________________________________________ > BRL-CAD Developer mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Minimize network downtime and maximize team effectiveness. Reduce network management and security costs.Learn how to hire the most talented Cisco Certified professionals. Visit the Employer Resources Portal http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/employer_resources/index.html _______________________________________________ BRL-CAD Developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel
