Re: Regarding: Debian: packaging updates.

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Nov 8, 2005, 19:30 UTC
Message-ID: <7vbr0vey42.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <4370EEF7.4060708@debian.org>

Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org> writes:

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> I'm currently in the process of working my way through the current 
> packaging, and there is quite a lot I am going to simplify. As the 
> Debian build scripts do not expect this file to be autogenerated, I 
> think it would be counterproductive to do so; it can seriously affect 
> reproducability of builds.
>
> (actually, I would like to ask not to fix things in the Debian packaging 
> that aren't broken, as providing an upgrade path for earlier versions 
> will be a lot less painful then)

Noted. I just barely speak enough deb to build binary packages, and the source packaging and upload procedure are something I've never bothered to learn, so I won't be touching that area from now on.

Since you have debian.org e-mail address, perhaps you can feed me patches to debian/ area and deb: rule in the main Makefile? I was asked to use dpkg-buildpackage/dpkg-genchanges and produce the *.changes file as well by somebody who maintains his own private apt source. I'd appreciate if you can take care of it when you update the Makefile deb: rule as well, if the *.changes file request makes sense to you.