On 1/23/07, George Danchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Right. Another disadvantage of making it a native package is that the orig.tar.gz (imagine monsters here, ... OpenOffice.org comes to mind ;-) has to be uploaded every time you change something in the package, even if this is a change specific to the debianisation process, and no new upstream version has been released. OTOH, having a debian_revision (i.e. a non-native package), when you change something to the debianisation process and create a new package with an increased debian revision number, you only need to upload the diff.gz to the Debian archive.
Yes, and because of this we should avoid native packages as much as possible. Nowadays, even projects with only one developer are stored in revision-control-systems and hosted online. So, it doesn't matter if something was written specifically for Debian, you can still host the source and publish releases in alioth, and by not having a native package allow debian-revision changes without a full upload of the source. Native packages are generally a bad idea. Please don't use them unless you really know what you are doing. -- Besos, Marga -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]