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? >
Some packages have a spec. file to build an RPM in standard. Why can't we do it with a debian/ directory ? -- | . ICQ : 25529539 | | |\ | | | \ / AIM : linhax |___ | | \| |__| / \ IRC nick : linhax Sami Dalouche : [EMAIL PROTECTED] DHIS : pingoo.dhis.org
