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Dennis Schridde wrote:

> Well, the debian/ dir doesn't seem to be very maintained and Linas also said 
> that he would not maintain it (if I remember it correctly).

I do not recall ever saying that. I said that it makes little sense to
keep distribution specific data inside main source repository.

Most of the time these need to be fine tuned for a certain distribution
even if they use same packaging tools. What is acceptable in one, may be
considered a bug in another, etc. That is why most packagers simply dump
the files and start from scratch.

Your best bet would be to remove "debian" directory and include a file
named "README.Debian" stating where these files can be found. The same
applies to other distributions as well.

No, I am not suggesting to remove all the packaging files form the SVN.
It is perfectly acceptable to keep them in a _separate_ section of the
same repository if (a) you are aware that the distribution in question
in not interested in making the packages, or (b) somebody from the
project is also a packager for a certain distribution.

I am not sure this applies to Windows or MacOS, as they do not provide a
convenient way (think apt, emerge) of distributing software. On the
other hand, users of such environments are likely to prefer pre-compiled
binary files.

Regards,
Linas

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