From: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 16:17:05 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] debian/ directory
Message-ID: <87oe31urge.kvalo.fsf@purkki.valo.iki.fi>
In-Reply-To: <20051228112018.19646.qmail@c226d15586b0bf.315fe32.mid.smarden.org>

Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org> writes:

>> 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

-- 
Kalle Valo