Subject: Re: Is there any opposition to a debian/ top-level subdir?
From: Darren O. Benham (gecko@benham.net)
Date: Tue Feb 13 2001 - 18:17:04 CST
I'm pretty sure diffs can't do symlinks..
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 12:07:07PM -0600, Sam TH wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 09:57:28AM -0800, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 09:57:36AM -0800, Paul Rohr wrote:
> > > At 10:31 PM 2/11/01 -0800, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> > > >We need this to be a native Debian package. If no one minds, I will
> > > >add it.
> > >
> > > We've worked hard to keep the top levels of the tree and minimize directory
> > > fanout, so I'd prefer to leave any distro-specific stuff in the master
> > > sources here:
> > >
> > > abi/src/pkg/linux/deb/
> >
> > I know, I know, and I very much agree.
> >
> > Debian works by reading files out of the debian/ directory. If such a
> > directory existed, AbiWord could be a native debian package. Right now
> > it is not and the debs require diffs adding the debian/ directory.
> >
> > This isn't a major problem, but it makes it far more awkward to
> > maintain the debs. In particular, they must be synced with upstream.
> > This wouldn't happen if the package was "native", i.e. the packaging
> > tools could find the files they needed in the debian/ directory
> > without needing a patch to add it.
> >
> > It's up to you. Right now a debian/ subdir actually wouldn't gain us
> > much since Debian's packaging tools need packages to be based on one
> > tarball and we have abi, expat, unixfonts, etc..., so the tarball has
> > to be specially crafted specially for debian anyway.
> >
> > If both of these problems were fixed, the original abiword tarball
> > could be uploaded to debian with no patching or rearranging of files.
> > This has obvious administrative benefits.
> >
>
> Aaron: what if the .diff.gz just added a symlink to the
> src/pkg/linux/deb. How much maintinence work would that add?
>
> sam th
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