On sön, 2006-02-05 at 11:56 -0500, ext Vladislav Grinchenko wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> an application ported to Hildon requires modification of files in
> 'debian' directory:
> 
> - control
>       Changing 'Dependency' to maemo
> 
> - rules
>       Passing --enable-hildon=yes option 
>         to ./configure command        
> 
> - myapp.links
>       hildon-specific
> 
> Maemo.org HOWTO's suggest including debian/* files in
> the distribution tarball. Debian Ports, on the other hand,
> tend to add debian/* files to the original source via diff files - you
> take an original source, apply the diff patch that adds debian/* files
> to the source tree. 
> 
> This is a clear incongruence of packaging policies.
> 
> Can anyone suggest a way of coping with these differences?

I'd definitely suggest to use the Debian way.  The Maemo way is just
wrong(tm).


Regards: David Weinehall
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