From: Carsten H. (T. R. <ra...@ra...> - 2008-01-30 22:41:25
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On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:18:39 +0000 Oliver Burnett-Hall <ol...@bu...> babbled: > On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 12:43:44AM +0900, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) > wrote: > > On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 15:39:46 +0200 Albin Tonnerre <alb...@gm...> > > babbled: > > > While I understand that you experienced issues with various packagers, > > > please keep in mind that it's not because some of them don't things the > > > way they should be that every single packager does. Either ways, a good > > > communication upstream <-> packging will be better than forcing packagers > > > into doing things, and making their job harder (yes, keeping debian/ in > > > the sources make our job harder. surprising isn't it ?) > > > > yes - it does seem amazing. i definitely don't want it out of cvs - but i'd > > be willing to compromise and not have it disted into the tarballs. so when > > we ship release tarballs (do a make dist) you wont have it in the tarball. > > nwe will keep the .spec file for rpm's and no rpm distro maintainers have > > no policies regarding this and are happy as-is as best i know. > > I'm coming in a tiny bit late to this discussion, but is there any > chance that this decision could be reversed? I just downloaded the > latest set of snapshot tarballs, and found that the debian/ directories > were missing. > > I do understand why some people don't like having these around if they > want to use their control files, but it's a lot easier to delete an > unwanted directory than recreate one that's been removed. ... now ... it's too late :(. you'll need to use cvs then. -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ra...@ra... |