On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 08:21:44PM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: > What is Debian's policy, if upstream provides its own debian directory > or package build procedure? [...] > Of course I checked Debian's Policy Manual, but AFAICS this subject > has been successfully ignored by now. Any helpful comment would be > highly appreciated.
Not ignored at all... maintainers who find an upstream debian directory getting in the way (and who are unable to successfully convince upstream of the inconvenience) usually either repackage the upstream source to remove it, or use v3 packaging format which clears and replaces it with the contents of the maintainer's files when unpacking. -- { IRL(Jeremy_Stanley); WWW(http://fungi.yuggoth.org/); PGP(43495829); WHOIS(STANL3-ARIN); SMTP(fu...@yuggoth.org); FINGER(fu...@yuggoth.org); MUD(kin...@katarsis.mudpy.org:6669); IRC(fu...@irc.yuggoth.org#ccl); ICQ(114362511); YAHOO(crawlingchaoslabs); AIM(dreadazathoth); } -- 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/20110318194641.gf1...@yuggoth.org