Am Sonntag, 17. September 2006 23:23 schrieb Angus Lees: > On 9/17/06, Linas Žvirblis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: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. So I did not remember correctly. :( But in the end it comes down to the same thing: The debian/ dir is not very usefull.
> Fine by me if we remove debian/. I only ever checked stuff in there since
> I'd done the packaging myself anyway and figured others might want to take
> advantage of it. If we have a (better maintained) debian package
> elsewhere, then I'm all for moving there.
Linas said that there are official Debian packaging scripts. (I think. Hope I
am correct this time.)
> > 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.
>
> Note, that you might want to move the warzone2100.{png,svg} icon files into
> a non-debian-specific directory. The .desktop file I'm less sure about,
> since it probably wants fully qualified Exec paths in it and is therefore
> not portable (in the completely general case).
I use the same desktop file for the AutoPackage... (As well as the icons.)
So I'd keep them somewhere. Perhaps in another folder...
> > 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.
>
> Linas, if you have warzone2100 packaging elsewhere (and its intending to
> make it into the debian archive), then I do suggest removing the 'upstream'
> debian/ packaging. Its just going to confuse people (as I've found with
> other projects that do the same, eg wine).
>
> (Where is this other (debian) svn repo? I'll send any patches there
> instead)
I hope I didn't forget to reply to anything...
--Dennis
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