On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:12 PM, Reinhard Tartler <[email protected]> wrote: > I didn't find the time to look closer at the package yet, but instead of > including a 11MB big quilt patch that ships the documentation, other > alternatives to this would be: > > a) reroll the orig.tar.gz with the docs included > b) copy them to debian/emacs-docs and copy them around in debian/rules > > a) is IMO the most elegant, and would be easy to implement if we had the > script that creates the orig.tar.gz. If it really isn't included in the > debian source package, we could ask Rob if he could share it with us. > > b) is IMO still better than the quilt patch as it would reduce the size > a bit. The docs would however still end up in diff.gz.
We've got the script that Rob uses to make the orig.tar.gz file, and I've even got a suitable branch for generating that tarball, with the original content plus removal of .elc and compiled info files. The case I'm trying to optimize for is: new (minor) version of the Debian package comes out, someone requests it to be synced to Ubuntu, the merge is easy enough that it can be done be merge-o-matic or whatever tool they're using nowadays. Major versions which involve new upstreams could still require manual intervention, with the steps documented in debian/ubuntu-maintainer.txt or something like that. Would having a modified orig.tar.gz file hinder the above in any way? -- Michael Olson || http://mwolson.org/ Projects: Emacs, Muse, ERC, EMMS _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-elisp Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-elisp More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
