Hello! After a bit of internal discussion, the people active in packaging KDE modules for Debian (*) have agreed that it'd be best if the source tarballs provided by the KDE Project wouldn't include the debian subdirectory that is present in its repository. This is pretty much the general consensus among Debian Developers, too.
We're aware that obviously this won't be possible for the 3.4.1
tarballs, but we hope that the necessary changes can be made for the
following release.
I'd like to add that the reasons for this request are purely of a
technical nature: having the 'debian' subdirectory in the upstream
tarballs can produce situations with which our current tools can't
cope (e.g., deleting a file under it). Alas, they take a (sometimes
significant) bit of space that is not relevant for other distributors,
so the removal also makes sense from this point of view.
Related to this, some people have noticed that these subdirectories
are very outdated in at least half of the official KDE modules. The
reason for this is that we've been using our own svn repository for a
while now. We realize this is a suboptimal situation, and we will soon
discuss possible solutions to improve the status of this, since we
want those directories to continue to have a place in the KDE
repository, and be actually useful.
Thanks in advance.
(*) In particular: Ben Burton, Isaac Clerencia, Christopher Martin,
Pierre Habouzit, Riku Voipio and myself.
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