On Sa, 12 Jun 2010, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> Quite not!!! It is even written in many places that if the upstram ships a
> debian folder in its tar.gz, we should get in touch and at least ask that it
> is renamed as debian-upstream or something similar. If you do not trust what
> I say, go read the policy, new maint manual and such.
Where please???
Please do not state things without reference.
I just read skipped the policy without finding *any* statement on first
sight dealing wiht the existence of debian subdir in the upstream sources.
No I don't trust people stating "it is like taht and that..." unless proof
is given otherwise.
And newmaint is *NOT* a policy document. I said clearly that it is
recommendable to separate the two, but I didn't state that it is
a must.
> > OTOH, it is often recommended that upstream developer and Debian
> > packager are different, and keep the files separately, but it is
> > by far not a must!
>
> IT IS a must that the debian folder is NOT in the orig.tar.gz, even if
> upstream is also the packager. What you are describing here is what we call a
> debian native package, which is really limited to very specific cases.
Please provide pointers instead of vague statements like "consult the policy"
Best wishes
Norbert
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