Hello Stéphane, 2012/1/26 Stéphane Glondu <[email protected]>: > Moreover, I saw that the debian/ repository is also part of the upstream > tarball. Keep in mind that it is completely ignored by Debian tools with > the 3.0 (quilt) format (only the one from .debian.tar.gz is taken into > account), which is a good thing. The rationale is that the upstream > Debian packaging is (conceptually) not the same as the one officially in > Debian (or in another dpkg-based distribution), each might evolve > differently and comparing both might not even make sense.
Is this because, for example, both Ubuntu and Debian are using this debian/ repository? As a programmer, it seems to me counter-productive to keep package relative information in several places instead of putting them in only on place, in the upstream tarball. In upstream, several packagers (Fedora, Debian, ...) can copy best practices *for this package*, instead of reinventing the wheel (I'm thinking at init script for example). Best regards, david -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAC3Lx=asaUoWS9zbmNTQ6RsXwwsMd=yyquzsancqv1itsp5...@mail.gmail.com
