From: Masayuki Hatta (mhatta@po.airs.net)
Date: Fri Sep 06 2002 - 06:30:47 EDT
Hi,
First, I found the directory abi/src/pkg/deb contains really ancient
stuff for Debian packaging which I think should be removed, since
these are actually useless now. I don't have the commit privilege, so
comitters, please do that.
Also I'm now thinking about adding the present Debian stuff for
packaging to the AbiSource CVS under the directory debian/. How do
you think?
Rationale:
I'm always worrying about the "legitimacy" of AbiWord packages for
Debian. In a strict sense, the Debianized AbiWord would be considered
as a derivative of the official AbiWord, since I at least add some
Debian specific stuff.
To avoid the complication, I can change the name of Debian packages to
"abiword-personal-*" or whatever, but I think it's much better if we
have the "offical" Debian packages in the Debian archive, because it
would be mirrored all over the world and get rebuilt automatically on
various architectures like hppa, ia64, sparc, powerpc, s390, etc.
Also for both users and the maintainer, the different packages of the
same program can be a PITA.
So, if I add Debian stuff to the CVS repository, all my changes for
Debian packaging are technically regarded as changes on the official
AbiWord sources themselves, so those complication will possibly gone.
But in this case, I'd like to have the commit privilege under debian/
since I change files fairly often as the Debian Policy changes or to
fix Debian-specific bugs. Also it will help me to maintain packages
via version control. I really don't want to make any small bits of
Debian-specific changes into patches and send it and wait until
someone commit it...I don't touch other parts anyway.
Best regards,
MH
-- Masayuki Hatta mhatta@gnu.org / mhatta@debian.org / mhatta@opensource.gr.jp
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