On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 06:13:40PM +0100, tombs wrote: > I'm trying to work with a package that was already debianized before. But > nothing more than that. The first question to ask is, is the packaging done by the previous maintainer ok? If it is more or less what you want that's a different situation to a bunch of debian files that are wrong.
If I was happy about how the package was, then just edit the control and changelogs and off you go. Also a rough rule of thumb is that upstream debian files are wrong. That's a gross generalisation but one I'd start with (ie treat the upstream debian files with caution) - Craig -- Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 http://www.enc.com.au/ csmall at : enc.com.au http://www.debian.org/ Debian GNU/Linux, software should be Free -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
