]] Peter Samuelson > [Neil Williams] > > These are not native packages, they are expressly used by other > > distributions than Debian or even Debian derivatives - just because > > I'm on the upstream team / am the entire upstream team does NOT mean > > that I am justified in polluting the tarball released to RPM users > > with stuff which is specific to Debian. > > There are valid reasons to encourage upstreams not to ship debian/ in > tarballs, but this one seems specious. Lots of projects ship RPM spec > files, often multiple ones for specific Linux distributions. Neither > spec files nor debian dirs are "bloat" on anything like the same scale > as convenience copies of Windows DLLs.
As long as the debian/ directory is properly maintained, I don't really see a downside in shipping it upstream. > Sure, the debian dir in your tarball may give little benefit to most of > its users. But does it really inconvenience anyone (other than the > Debian maintainer)? Unless the debian dir adds more than, say, 10% to > the size of the download, I would say it does not. If the Debian maintainer uses the 3.0 format, the debian/ directory is magically removed from the upstream tarball anyway. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87627kxpt3....@xoog.err.no