Re: [PATCH] debian/ directory

Gerrit Pape [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

different from what I have, so I'd like to avoid potential
confusion and reduce work by the official maintainer and myself.

Thanks.  The most notable change is that debhelper isn't used to do the
packaging stuff, and the build-dependency has been dropped; this is
after my personal preference.

Below is the diff for reference, I think though it might be better if
you don't include the debian/ directory in the upstream package at all.

One upside in Junio's debian packages is that they[1] work also in
sarge[2]. If he stops building them, we sarge users will miss them.
Any volunteers to maintain them, for example, through backports.org?

[1] at least git-core and git-doc work
[2] Debian 3.1

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Kalle Valo

On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 06:17:05PM +0200, Kalle Valo wrote:

Gerrit Pape [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

Below is the diff for reference, I think though it might be better if
you don't include the debian/ directory in the upstream package at all.

One upside in Junio's debian packages is that they[1] work also in
sarge[2]. If he stops building them, we sarge users will miss them.
Any volunteers to maintain them, for example, through backports.org?

Thanks to Norbert Tretkowski, the git* and cogito packages are now
available for Debian sarge through http://backports.org/.

Regards, Gerrit.

Gerrit Pape [off-list ref] writes:

Thanks to Norbert Tretkowski, the git* and cogito packages are now
available for Debian sarge through http://backports.org/.

Good to hear.  Does that mean nobody would suffer if I drop
debian/ subdirectory along with deb target in the main Makefile
anymore?  If so I would.

On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 02:37:16PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Gerrit Pape [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

Thanks to Norbert Tretkowski, the git* and cogito packages are now
available for Debian sarge through http://backports.org/.

Good to hear.  Does that mean nobody would suffer if I drop
debian/ subdirectory along with deb target in the main Makefile
anymore?  If so I would.

Well, it's probably still a quick way to produce snapshot packages
when needed.  An alternative could be to have Norbert's tree
accessible, and possibly advertized in the docs, so a simple merge
would be sufficient to build a snapshot package.

Best regards,
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