retitle 610495 ITP: ulatencyd -- daemon controlling how the kernel spends resources on running processes owner 610495 ! thanks
Hi Daniel, I would like to package ulatencyd for Debian. It would make my work much easier if you could remove the debian/ directory from your upstream tarball. Having upstream shipping the debian/ directory means that the maintainer of the package has to provide a patch for every modification he makes to the debian/* files. It leads to a lot of additional work and many possible problems for the maintain himself (see [0] for an example). A possible solution would be to simply repack your tarball removing the debian/ directory on my part (Debian Policy allows a maintainer to repack the upstream tarball only if it is really necessary) but, if possible, I would prefer to avoid it. I think it would make also your work easier since you won't have to worry about updating the Debian stuff. I will anyway distribute my work also on git.debian.org so that you can have a look at what I (or anyone else working on the package) am doing and maybe propose changes. Cheers [0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2006/01/msg00381.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
