----- Original message ----- > On Sa, 12 Jun 2010, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > While it is ok to keep your debian folder in your VCS, remember that > > your orig.tar.gz should NOT contain it. It's less of an issue if you > > use source format 3.0 (Quilt) but this is still the policy in Debian. > > That is a recommendation, but by far not a necessity!!! > > Of course upstream can ship all necessary debian files as is, where is > the problem? Then the diff would be empty, or the debian.tar.gz would > be empty, and that is fine.
Quite not!!! It is even written in many places that if the upstram ships a debian folder in its tar.gz, we should get in touch and at least ask that it is renamed as debian-upstream or something similar. If you do not trust what I say, go read the policy, new maint manual and such. > OTOH, it is often recommended that upstream developer and Debian > packager are different, and keep the files separately, but it is > by far not a must! IT IS a must that the debian folder is NOT in the orig.tar.gz, even if upstream is also the packager. What you are describing here is what we call a debian native package, which is really limited to very specific cases. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1276315242.1501.2.ca...@nokia-n900-42-11
