On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 12:05 AM, Jamu Kakar <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jason, > > On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 6:33 AM, Jason Baker <[email protected]> wrote: >> Just out of sheer curiosity, what is the purpose of this change? What >> advantages are there to doing things that way? > > The primary purpose of the change, at least the reason I made it, is > to keep the mainline history clean. I use AutoPPA to build packages > and if you look back in the history you'll see fair amount of noise > created as a result of AutoPPA merging changes made to produce a > build back into trunk. Using a separate packaging branch alleviates > this and keeps trunk a pure upstream branch. It's a pattern that > subunit uses, and I think Bazaar too. > > I've been told by real packagers (I'm mostly a faker) that this kind > of separation is preferred because it's somehow easier for them to > make changes. I don't fully understand why this is, to be honest.
What most of the Debian/Ubuntu packagers don't like is upstream tarballs that contain a debian directory. Since the debian source packages are made up of a pristine source tarball and a diff, having a debian directory in the tarball introduces the possibility of conflicts when updating to a new version. James. -- storm mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/storm
