I'm working on packaging asterisk-extra-sounds (ITP: #571165 , copyright issues finally cleared).
The package, as is the existing asterisk-core-sounds, is a combination of multiple upstream tarballs in various formats and languages. In fact, I may want to add (or remove?) new languages / formats at newer versions of the Debian package without much of a hassale. After an initial attempt of repackaging them all to a huge Debian source package, I chose to use a multi-tarball dpkg v.3 package. This seems to work pretty well. The only problem is that svn-buildpackage does not support this. Or rather: it should have, but a long standing bug (with a partial fix attached to it, to which the maintainer did not comment. But since uploaded one or two versions). git-buildpackage has an option to not store all the data in the archive (--overlay). That one does not seem to support multiple tarballs (right?). I'm not aware of multi-tarball support in pristine-tar, and as I mentioned, I would prefer to keep those files out of my packaging archive: they hardly change, anyway. So, what do you do with multi-tarball packages? I keep a patched svn-buildpackage, for now. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best tzaf...@debian.org | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130216085715.ge1...@lemon.cohens.org.il
