[fetchmail-devel] Re: Putting the Debian package in the repository

[Graham W. <bo...@de...>]

On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 11:58:44PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote:
> Graham Wilson schrieb am 2004-06-11:
> > I would like (if everyone agrees that it is alright) to put the Debian
> > package under version control with the rest of fetchmail at Berlios.
> > 
> > This would entail creating a branches/debian directory for the Debian
> > packaging branch. This would keep all Debian related changes specific to
> > this one branch directory. Under the directory would be (for example):
> 
> Is the branch a modified fetchmail version or a separate package? If it
> is separate, the branch may not be the optimal way to formulate what it
> is.

I am not sure what you mean, but I'll describe the current situation and
let you guys decide.

The current Debian package of fetchmail is a patched version of
fetchmail, with the addition of a debian directory in the toplevel of
the source. Now, that development has picked up again, I'd like to
either merge or drop the Debian-specific patches into the trunk, so
that the Debian package only ends up as the trunk plus the debian
directory.

The reason I'd like to keep this in the same repository as fetchmail is
because it would make merging stuff from the Debian package to and from
the main fetchmail source easy. This will facilitate me updating the
Debian package, as well as me working on merging Debian-specific patches
into the trunk.

So, what do you guys think?

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gram