On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 11:24:20AM +0100, Christian Linhart wrote: > There is no debian-directory in the master-branch of libxcb. > > In the debian-branch, there is a debian-directory, > but the debian-branch looks abandoned since 7 years, i.e., it is completely > out of date. > > So, we need to define the general procedure of handling the debian-specific > stuff. > > From what I know about Debian, the Debian-specific files are usually managed > by > the Debian project in the Debian-repo, and they are not included in upstream > usually. > > But there may be good reasons for making an exception for libxcb. > Probably due to the large amount of generated code etc.
Actually, it's mostly because at one point the upstream maintainers and Debian maintainers were the same people. I think the current Debian maintainers do have commit access (and if not, they should), but it sounds like they maintain their packaging elsewhere. - Josh Triplett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
