Re: [PATCH] debian/ directory

From: Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org>
Date: Jan 7, 2006, 11:19 UTC
Message-ID: <20060107111948.GC32585@nowhere.earth>
In-Reply-To: <7vzmm9rnj7.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

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

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> Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org> 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.

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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