On 2015-06-07 14:17, Geert Stappers wrote: > > Hi, > > What about creating a guide line where upstream creates a directory > Packaging where sub directories are like Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, > Redhat, CentOS, Suse and such? > > So Upstream can ship their tar-balls / git repositories with > the package stuff ( Spec files, debian/ directories ) allready available. > Next distro have that way a starting point for their packaging. > > My reason for such guide line is that I'm now bitten by our policy > that upstream should NOT include a debian directory in the top directory > and there is allready done packaging. > > Does such a guide line allready exist? > > > Groeten > Geert Stappers >
Hi, I am not entirely sure that advice is still valid. As I recall, the "3.0 (quilt)" effectively mitigates that problem - by deleting the entire "debian/" provided by upstream before extracting the debian.tar.$comp ~Niels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/55743a5a.4010...@thykier.net
