Hi David, On Saturday 30 April 2005 14:46, David Clarke wrote:
> Why is it better to have the debian directory separate to the main > tarball? I had a read of the thread a little while ago about the > developers including a debian directory, and am still unsure why this is > neccessarily a bad thing if the person producing the debs is the > developer. Because it is less confusing for your non-Debian users. Your are producing source archives which have the debian revision included in their filename, like splat-0.1-2.tar.bz2. Imagine you release a new revision of the Debian package only with changes in the debian/ directory. You'd probably call it splat-0.1-3.tar.bz2 and all your non-Debian users will think that there is a new splat version available and download/install it. But what do they gain? Changes in the debian packaging they don't care about. I'll consider this as an extra burden you put on your users. GrÃÃe, Frank -- Frank S. Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ,''`. http://www.thomas-alfeld.de/frank : :' : GPG Key ID: 0xDC426429 `. `' `-
