Re: [StGit] Debian packaging update

From: Daniel White <daniel@whitehouse.id.au>
Date: Aug 23, 2008, 03:58 UTC
Message-ID: <20080823135855.1a7aafd4@whitehouse.id.au>
In-Reply-To: <b0943d9e0808221457w42a84fbgdf62e3ddbb417389@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:57:02 +0100 "Catalin Marinas" <catalin.marinas@gmail.com> wrote:

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> 2008/8/22 Daniel White <daniel@whitehouse.id.au>:
> > Since it is now packaged by Debian is it still necessary to be
> > maintaining Debian packaging?
> 
> This is mainly to make it easier for Debian maintainers. Someone might
> also want to build a .deb package for a different version or flavour
> of Debian.
>

I had been reading an article recently about packaging, and there was the suggestion that upstream having packaging caused headaches when merging new versions.

But I definately agree that the second case is handy.

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> > Having a look at the Debian version, they have made quite a few
> > changes against our packaging.  It might be worth getting some
> > patches from them that are not specific to Debian policy (like the
> > setup of bash completion).
>

Just to clarify, I believe the automatic setup of bash completion _is_ specific to Debian policy.

> I don't follow the Debian package much but I'll have a look to see the
> differences.
>

-- 
Daniel White