Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, David Everly wrote: > >> Is there some mechanism or alternative for using uupdate so that any >> upstream debian directory can be removed before patching? > > Don't know about uupdate, but you are allowed to repackage the .orig.tar.gz > to exclude the upstream debian directory if it helps you to maintain > the package in Debian.
I see no reason for repackaging in this case. It is much better to just delete the upstream debian directory in the unpacked sources and copy the "debian debian directory" from the old version to its place. After doing the necessary adjustments, the differences will end up in the diff.gz, and that is where they belong IMHO. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer