On 5/16/11 4:00 PM, "Kevin A. McGrail" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Darxus,
>
> I think you started the chain to update the debian files and
> unfortunately, we now have Warren, Mark, Noah and Myself weighing in
> recommending that the debian (AND I believe the redhat stuff) be removed.
>
> One suggestion I have is to move the items to a contrib dir implying
> they are as-is and not supported. Then perhaps even place them in a
> pre-3.3.2 (or pre-3.4.0 dir) and a <current release> dir so if we want
> to add the new debian files, they can go in that contrib directory. And
> otherwise people know what is outdated and what hasn't been touched, etc.
That would prevent the create-package-from-tarball scripts from functioning,
and would be the least desirable of all solutions. My preference would be
to discard Debian and RedHat directories completely and let the package
maintainers do their own job.
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Daniel J McDonald, CCIE # 2495, CISSP # 78281
