On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 03:00:47PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > For me it makes perfectly sense if you focus on upstream but maintaining > a "competing" debian/ dir without beeing familiar with Debian packaging > stuff is a way of thinking I can not follow. Why exactly do you want to > repeat a work which is done by somebody else by at the same time > confirming that you can not do a better job than this somebody else?
I can understand that upstream are generally interested in maintaining multi-releases flavors of the same source package+debian scripts (see for instance the qgis case) which has little or no sense at all for Debian main archive. At the same time, I see nothing complicated at all in having an upstream-debian/ folder (and possibly also more than one) within the upstream source and some silly makefile target to do basically a 'make debian', prepare a useful link to the right folder and build by useful target. As an upstream sometimes I also add some useful --enable-debian flag for autotools and similar variants exactly with the goal of customzing easily some aspects of the programs. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-gis-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140313085717.ga2...@blegrez.ba.issia.cnr.it
