[Ganglia-developers] web and debian/* files

[Daniel P. <da...@po...>]

The web download includes a debian/ directory with files for building a
Debian package

Debian also keeps a separate set of files for the same purpose in the
Debian git VCS:

    git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/ganglia-web.git

When importing release tarballs into the Debian VCS, it is necessary to
filter out the upstream version of the debian/* files, they don't get
used at all:

  git-import-orig -u 3.5.2 --filter='debian/*'
~/Downloads/ganglia-web_3.5.2.orig.tar.gz

To simplify things and avoid duplication, debian/* could be omitted from
future gweb releases (and even removed from the git repo)

Would anyone object to that?

I believe that the main advantage of tracking these files in Debian's
git is that any Debian developer can update them and update an emergency
bug fix release at any time.