On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 at 18:50, Graham Percival <gperc...@tarsnap.com> wrote: > > On 2025-02-05, Roberto A. Foglietta wrote: > > On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 at 06:06, Michael Lustfield <mich...@lustfield.net> > > wrote: > > >
[...] > > (Disclaimer: I'm a Tarsnap employee, but not a lawyer, and certainly > don't own the copyright.) [...] > > To clarify, tarsnap does not have a top-level > debian/ > directory. Rather, we have a top-level > pkg/debian/ > directory -- but that's (appropriately) ignored by dpkg-buildpackage and > related deb packaging tools. > > As such, making a package would involve adding a *new* top-level debian/ > directory (which may or may not be an exact copy of pkg/debian/). > There's no need to modify any files that we distribute -- I specifically > put packaging stuff in pkg/debian/ so that the tarsnap_*.debian.tar.gz > would not overwrite anything in the .orig source tarball. That's great. Propose your company to become the Debian tarsnap package maintainer and life will be easier for all. Best regards, R-
