On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:57:20 +1000 Simon Horman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:

> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 01:35:22PM -0700, Michael Jennings wrote:
> > On Tuesday, 10 June 2008, at 11:21:30 (+0200),
> > Albin Tonnerre wrote:
> > 
> > > Please, no. This was intentionnaly reverted because it causes a
> > > build failure when using tarballs created by 'make distcheck', as
> > > the debian dir is not included in them (on purpose)
> > 
> > I still think this is a huge mistake.  It's a very simple matter for
> > someone who doesn't want to use it to "rm -rf" a debian/ hierarchy
> > that is already there.
> > 
> > It's a hell of a lot harder for someone who *does* want to use it to
> > reproduce it out of thin air.
> 
> First, up sorry for the bother. I didn't realise that there
> was a new way to handle the Debian packaging wafting through
> the archive.
> 
> Secondly, perhaps it would be better to improve the packaging,
> incoporating those changes being made by people maintaining pacakages
> for Debian, rather than delete it all together.
> 
> Its seems to me that being able to check out code from cvs and build a
> debian package would be useful to some people. But perhaps I am the only
> person in that category :-)

oh we don't delete - we just dont include it in the dist tarballs - so not in
configure.in/makefile.am, but otherwise in cvs is fine. :)


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