Am Dienstag, 28. Februar 2006 21:26 schrieb Henning Makholm: > Further, providing an .orig.tar.gz without the debian/ directory helps > prevent confusion for users on non-Debian systems.
So the same reason for not including a .spec file (for creating RPM packages). On the other side, some user may find it very useful. Same goes for users of Debian stable that like to use a newer version without doing the backporting. I think the main reason for not inluding the debian subdir in upstream sources it that it may result in naming problem (see the cupsys packages: the deb provided by upstream was a single package named "cups"). And the patch is easier to read if the subdir is only added ;) HS -- Mein GPG-Key ist auf meiner Homepage verfügbar: http://www.hendrik-sattler.de oder über pgp.net PingoS - Linux-User helfen Schulen: http://www.pingos.org
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