Hello Stéphane,

2012/1/30 Stéphane Glondu <[email protected]>:
> Not exactly. What I meant is that in Debian, stuff might be changed in
> debian/ independently of upstream. For example, to follow changes in
> policy, package renaming, transitions, etc. The upstream "Debian
> packaging" then becomes osbolete, and it seems wrong to me to make a new
> upstream release just to keep up with Debian-specific changes.

Well, it depends on ability of upstream to make minor releases. But I
understand that could be an issue and that separated debian/ makes
package management easier for Debian.

Thank you for the clarifications,
Best regards,
david


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