On Thu, Aug 27, 2009, giopas wrote: > > Try grabbing the debian packaging from here: > > > > http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-gnome/packages/unstable/rhythmbox/debian/#_packages_unstable_rhythmbox_debian_ > > or use "apt-get source rhythmbox" and re-use the debian dir. > > > > That means that Debian packagers (e.g. Loic Minier?) have manually edited > the changelog in debian/ at the time of the packaging, but these changes > have not been uploaded back to git (which - afaik - is the only version > system used by rhythmbox, anymore). Is it right? How did they proceeded to > compile it?
Debianish distros usually dont maintain the debian/ dir in the upstream VCS. Due to limitations in the Debian source package format which are being fixed, it's not possible to "remove" downstream a file which is in the debian/ dir in the upstream tarball. That means that if Debian or Ubuntu needs to update the packaging to drop a file below debian/, they have to rebuild the upstream tarball themselves to drop debian/. Also, debian/ differs across distros, so we prefer if upstream doesn't have one at all and Debian maintains its debian/ and Ubuntu its debian/ based on Debian's. Cheers -- Loïc Minier _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
