On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 19:18 +0200, Panu Kalliokoski wrote: > On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 03:52:04AM +1100, skaller wrote: > > > It's your call, but since making them non-native is not really that much > > > more work, I'd recommend doing it that way. > > However there is a reason, it is political, it is > > relevant -- it convinced me anyhow :) I also initially > > produced a native package. > > Thank you for this explanation. Although I still have some issues with > it, it seems I should build infrastructure for building source packages. > (Earlier, one just needed dpkg-source -b; now it seems there must be > some script or makefile target to construct a fake .orig directory and > then build the source with that.) It feels funny that I have to make a > dummy "pristine" source for the Debian project while I've been releasing > the "debian-specific" source outside Debian for ages.
I had to as well. Initially I found it a quite painful. But then my sponsoring DD decided to become the maintainer :) -- John Skaller <skaller at users dot sourceforge dot net> Async PL, Realtime software consultants Checkout Felix: http://felix.sourceforge.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
