On Sun, Jul 25, 1999 at 05:52:10PM +0300, Alex Shnitman wrote: > On Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 09:32:08PM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote: > > > 1) I am the author of program I am packaging. To save myself > > some work, I have packaged it as a native debian package. Is this > > allowed? (There was some discussion about it a long time ago, > > and it seemed possible to do so) > > IANAD [I am not a developer] but it looks to me that if the program is > useful for the general public (not only Debian users) it's better to > not make it a native debian package -- what if someone else takes > maintenance of it when you don't have time anymore; will it need to be > converted?
Well, of course, the program is still perfectly usable on any other linux system (even on FreeBSD). Users there just do make; make install and there they go... Native debian package means there is no *.orig.tar.gz and release versions look like 1.0 1.1 1.2 etc... -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | Radovan Garabik http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/ | | __..--^^^--..__ garabik @ fmph.uniba.sk | ----------------------------------------------------------- Antivirus alert: file .signature infected by signature virus. Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature file to help me spread!
