Re: Is there any opposition to a debian/ top-level subdir?


Subject: Re: Is there any opposition to a debian/ top-level subdir?
From: Aaron Lehmann (aaronl@vitelus.com)
Date: Mon Feb 12 2001 - 20:06:22 CST


On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 08:04:21PM -0600, Sam TH wrote:
> One more quick question, aaron. What Paul seems to be suggesting is
> that before you create the orig.tar.gz, you run some make command.
> Then the autobuilders @ debian would be just fine, and it would only
> be a hassle for the person uploading the source package.
>
> Am I missing something here?

No, but possibly I was.

It's an interesting proposition. Ideally, the .orig.tar.gz is supposed
to be the pristine upstream source, but in this case we are spread
across tarballs so we need to make custom ones anyway.



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