On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 19:19, Philippe Roussel <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Well, I'm far from a packaging expert but I think it's considered bad form
> to include a debian folder in the sources. Some of the files on this folder
> as to be changed for each distribution, for each modifications etc.
>
> But I could be wrong so let's ask Yavor Doganov who first packaged
> SimpleAgenda for Debian.
>
> What could possibly be done is repository of .deb diffs of GNUstep
> applications and libraries ? Not sure it would be really useful as we can
> find those diffs on debian.org.


Both ways are described in Debian documentation, but the "no-debian-folder"
is encouraged.

When I target Debian, I personally prefer adding a debian/ folder (or a way
to replicate it), because I want to be able to produce an official package
easily, and I want my users to be able to pull a revision from VCS at
random, and produce a package from it.

If someone's up for it, it may be a good idea to make an official build
ruleset (even if stored separately), as well as make it possible to use
GNUmakefiles for generating the debian/ folder for libraries and apps.
-- 
Ivan Vučica - [email protected]
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