On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 08:57:07PM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
I would like to ask whether there really is such a guideline, and if so,
which are the technical / political reasons that lead to it.
a) If there is a bug in the packaging, it can be fixed without uploading
a new upstream source
Il giorno mer, 01/03/2006 alle 09.54 +0200, Panu Kalliokoski ha scritto:
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 08:57:07PM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
I would like to ask whether there really is such a guideline, and if so,
which are the technical / political reasons that lead to it.
a) If there is a
[liw]
a) If there is a bug in the packaging, it can be fixed without
uploading a new upstream source tarball. Assuming upstream version
is 1.2, the first Debian version would be 1.2-1, and the fixed one
would be 1.2-2. The .orig.tar.gz file would be the same for 1.2-1
and 1.2-2.
Hello, I'm a long-time debian user that aspires to be a DD someday. I
recently posted many RFS's on debian-mentors, some of which were
software that I'm both the upstream author and packager of. These
packages are native Debian packages, i.e. their source distribution is
only one .tar.gz. It
ti, 2006-02-28 kello 19:39 +0200, Panu Kalliokoski kirjoitti:
I would like to ask whether there really is such a guideline, and if so,
which are the technical / political reasons that lead to it.
There is a somewhat common feeling among Debian developers that Debian
packaging should be separate
Scripsit Panu Kalliokoski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was pointed to me that packages should be preferably non-native,
even if no source release without the debian/ subdir has ever
existed.
I would like to ask whether there really is such a guideline, and if so,
which are the technical / political
Am Dienstag, 28. Februar 2006 21:26 schrieb Henning Makholm:
Further, providing an .orig.tar.gz without the debian/ directory helps
prevent confusion for users on non-Debian systems.
So the same reason for not including a .spec file (for creating RPM packages).
On the other side, some user may
I would like to ask whether there really is such a guideline, and if so,
which are the technical / political reasons that lead to it. I have
Wearing my i18n hat, I can add one reason, certainly not THE reason
but yet another argument to avoid native packages except for
Debian-specific stuff
Scripsit Hendrik Sattler [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Am Dienstag, 28. Februar 2006 21:26 schrieb Henning Makholm:
Further, providing an .orig.tar.gz without the debian/ directory helps
prevent confusion for users on non-Debian systems.
On the other side, some user may find it very useful.
Then the
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