Re: New upstream version of velvet contains debian/ dir

2012-09-12 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 12/09/2012 05:29, gregor herrmann wrote: On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 22:33:28 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: If the Debian maintainer uses the 3.0 format, the debian/ directory is magically removed from the upstream tarball anyway. Right, but it's still annyoing when importing into a VCS. git

Re: New upstream version of velvet contains debian/ dir

2012-09-12 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 17:20:17 +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: If the Debian maintainer uses the 3.0 format, the debian/ directory is magically removed from the upstream tarball anyway. Right, but it's still annyoing when importing into a VCS. git import-orig --filter=debian/ might help.

Re: New upstream version of velvet contains debian/ dir

2012-09-11 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Neil Williams] These are not native packages, they are expressly used by other distributions than Debian or even Debian derivatives - just because I'm on the upstream team / am the entire upstream team does NOT mean that I am justified in polluting the tarball released to RPM users with

Re: New upstream version of velvet contains debian/ dir

2012-09-11 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Peter Samuelson [Neil Williams] These are not native packages, they are expressly used by other distributions than Debian or even Debian derivatives - just because I'm on the upstream team / am the entire upstream team does NOT mean that I am justified in polluting the tarball

Re: New upstream version of velvet contains debian/ dir

2012-09-11 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 10:33:28PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: As long as the debian/ directory is properly maintained, I don't really see a downside in shipping it upstream. In the case in question it is a fork of a quite outdated packaging. Kind regards Andreas. --

Re: New upstream version of velvet contains debian/ dir

2012-09-11 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 22:33:28 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: If the Debian maintainer uses the 3.0 format, the debian/ directory is magically removed from the upstream tarball anyway. Right, but it's still annyoing when importing into a VCS. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Homepage:

Re: New upstream version of velvet contains debian/ dir

2012-09-10 Thread Andreas Tille
[History of thread: http://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2012/09/msg00024.html and following Please stick to debian-devel when responding - reply-to set] Hi Charles, On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 04:30:38PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: I answer on debian-med only to avoid adding to the

Re: New upstream version of velvet contains debian/ dir

2012-09-10 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 11:35:25AM +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit : On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 04:30:38PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: For the packages that I started and on which I am still a major contributor, I would like Upstream to include a debian directory in his source tarballs.

Re: New upstream version of velvet contains debian/ dir

2012-09-10 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 18:57:45 +0900 Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org wrote: For the package velvet: I created it. I sometimes use it. I uploaded it 14 times. I met the developer in the real life (5 minutes...). It has been some time I have been considering switching the source package to

Re: New upstream version of velvet contains debian/ dir

2012-09-10 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 11:34:54AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: Stop being lazy and be a friendly upstream to non-Debian downstreams. Charles is not upstream itself - he just gave an advise to upstream to diverge from what we usually propose and I wanted to check whether our advise remains valid

Re: New upstream version of velvet contains debian/ dir

2012-09-10 Thread Ian Jackson
Andreas Tille writes (Re: New upstream version of velvet contains debian/ dir): On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 11:34:54AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: Stop being lazy and be a friendly upstream to non-Debian downstreams. Charles is not upstream itself - he just gave an advise to upstream