On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 06:57:38PM +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote: > I see what you mean. However, both from a technical point of view, and from a > philosophical point of view, it makes sense: People who are getting your > release tarball will not want to build a Debian package (if they did, they'd > get your Debian (source) package directly). Also, people who want to use the > package on other distributions should not be bothered with debian-specific > stuff. The fact that they bother us with their .spec files doesn't mean we > shouldn't be nice to them. ;-)
I see... although I've never been bothered when a source tarball comes with some inessential crap, such as a .spec, version control files, some stupid list of contributors, or an automake script :) Maybe it's just that I don't "feel like" doing wrong when I give the debian/ subdir even to people who don't need it. That said, I'm going to change the packaging, but I still want to see the outcome of the discussion. > Having the debian/ directory under version control is useful. But it > shouldn't be included in the tarball when you run "make dist". I've never used "make dist", because there has been nothing I deemed worth purging from the distribution. (I don't use autoconf, a notorious source of need for "make dist" rules.) > No, it's not especially vulnerable, but because of the strong advise to use > pristine sources, it's the only part that can actually be split off. Also, > splitting the package in many pieces makes it very hard to get and install all > the pieces, and you probably don't want to inflict that on your users. ;-) Well, that's exactly the reason I'm reluctant to split the source: if you can do perfectly well with one source tarball (for debian users, non-debian users, and the build system), why not do that? Note that I'm not going to take the debian/ dir away from my _real_ release sources; just from the Debian source packages, if Debian really strongly encourages that. Panu -- personal contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED], +35841 5323835 technical contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.iki.fi/atehwa/ PGP fingerprint: 0EA5 9D33 6590 FFD4 921C 5A5F BE85 08F1 3169 70EC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
