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

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

On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 02:22:51AM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote:
> Graham Wilson schrieb am 2004-06-15:
> > 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?
> 
> I don't have general objections - but let's review the patches first :-)

That was my plan. When I import the Debian source tree I can start
looking at the differences.

> I wonder if the Debian directory should also be here if that made
> sense.

The general consensus among other developers is that doing so is not a
good idea, since fixes only to the Debian directory might require new
releases. Also, those downloading the tarball, or checking out a copy
from CVS would have a Debian directory that they wouldn't be interested
in.

Additionally, I might (for some reason or other) need to patch the
fetchmail source tree in a way that only affects Debian, and I wouldn't
want to have to put the patch in the trunk.

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gram