Re: Self-maintained Debian packages best practice

2015-04-01 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
On Mon, 1 Dec 2014 10:27:52 Paul Wise wrote: Personally I prefer to separate packaging from upstream development because they are two different things. When I use a VCS for packaging it contains only the debian/ directory. This is how I like to handle Debian packaging in git as well. --

Re: Self-maintained Debian packages best practice

2014-12-01 Thread Tim Ruehsen
On Sunday 30 November 2014 20:32:26 T o n g wrote: On Sun, 30 Nov 2014 18:12:06 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: In the past, having a `debian/` directory upstream was a pain because we didn't have a proper way to remove a file if needed. Nowadays, it is perfectly fine if you use a 3.0

Self-maintained Debian packages best practice

2014-11-30 Thread T o n g
Hi, I'm currently hosting my self-maintained Debian packages on GitHub. Here is my dilemma: - It is commonly recommended not to put the `debian` folder within the source tree so as to make it easier for other distros. - So I did. I did not put my `debian` folder within the source tree on

Re: Self-maintained Debian packages best practice

2014-11-30 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 30 novembre 2014 14:06 GMT, T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com : I'm currently hosting my self-maintained Debian packages on GitHub. Here is my dilemma: - It is commonly recommended not to put the `debian` folder within the source tree so as to make it easier for other distros. In the

Re: Self-maintained Debian packages best practice

2014-11-30 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello Forum, On 30/11/14 16:30, Vincent Bernat wrote: ❦ 30 novembre 2014 14:06 GMT, T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com : I'm currently hosting my self-maintained Debian packages on GitHub. Here is my dilemma: - It is commonly recommended not to put the `debian` folder within the source

Re: Self-maintained Debian packages best practice

2014-11-30 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 05:31:00PM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: On 30/11/14 16:30, Vincent Bernat wrote: In the past, having a `debian/` directory upstream was a pain because we didn't have a proper way to remove a file if needed. Nowadays, it is perfectly fine if you use a 3.0 format.

Re: Self-maintained Debian packages best practice

2014-11-30 Thread T o n g
On Sun, 30 Nov 2014 18:12:06 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: In the past, having a `debian/` directory upstream was a pain because we didn't have a proper way to remove a file if needed. Nowadays, it is perfectly fine if you use a 3.0 format. Fine in which way ? It's fine because, for a

Re: Self-maintained Debian packages best practice

2014-11-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 4:32 AM, T o n g wrote: Ok, good to know, but that's more targeting towards package building, not source code developing and maintaining. Does it imply that I should put the `debian` folder within my source tree now? Because as mentioned before, the last thing I want to

Re: Self-maintained Debian packages best practice

2014-11-30 Thread Russ Allbery
T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com writes: Ok, good to know, but that's more targeting towards package building, not source code developing and maintaining. Does it imply that I should put the `debian` folder within my source tree now? Because as mentioned before, the last thing I want to do is