"bilibop project" <[email protected]> writes: > I'm new on this list. > I plan to create a source package to build several binary packages > (including shell functions, shell scripts, udev rules and > documentation). This will be a Debian native package. My question is > about the tarball, especially files taking place outside of the > debian/ directory:
You can do whatever you want outside of debian/. The tree can reflect what paths the files would have on the filesystem, or separate them by tool, or language, or role, or whatever else you find best. > or what ? Can I do as I want or have I to follow some good examples ? > I have browsed some other tarballs with different conclusions, and > read documentation, but never found something saying: "this is > required" or more simply "this is a good way", "this is wrong, > because..." or 'this is let at the discretion of the upstream > developer". Is it the case ? It is this last one. Upstream decides how the upstream tarball looks like. -- |8] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]

