On Sun, 7 Feb 2010, Paul Wise wrote: > Upstream keeping debian/ in their tarball is no longer as problematic; > with the dpkg-source 3.0 (quilt) format, dpkg-source deletes the > debian/ dir unpacked from the upstream orig.tar.gz before extracting > the debian.tar.gz, so the upstream debian/ dir is no longer relevant.
Good to know. If the .deb ends up diverging from upstream at all (shouldn't!) I'll probably switch, as the patch approach is easier to manage. > >> I'm also interested in becoming a Debian Developer. My company, DreamHost > >> web hosting, is a long time debian user, and we maintain a large number of > >> packages internally that could be contributed upstream (perl modules and > >> such). One way or another, I'd like to see the packaging work we do > >> internally get contributed back to the community. > > For the perl modules, I'd strongly suggest the relevant persons join > the Perl team, you'll easily find sponsors, advice, QA and shared > maintainence there. > > http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianPerlGroup Thanks, I'll get the appropriate people involved. sage
