Francisco Moya wrote: > Probably Chris Lamb is right in that atheist *should not* be a debian > native package. But it is by decision of upstream authors. There is no > separate repository for debian stuff and debian releases *do change* the > atheist package version. Therefore while it is not a "Debian specific > package" it is nonetheless "[...] the case where a piece of software was > written specifically to be turned into a Debian package" (cf. DP 5.6.12). > > It wouldn't make sense to make a source package where diffs are always > empty (forced by release policy) and the debian revision is always 1. > Of course things may change in the future but the main upstream author > does not seem to be open to discuss the release policy and version > scheme (I tried).
Wrong, if upstream ships a file that Debian does not want to include anymore, then it won't work anymore. The right thing to do is to not include the debian directory in the orig tarball. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
