Re: [Ganglia-developers] web and debian/* files

[Dave R. <da...@pa...>]

It becomes problematic when the two "/debian" subdirs diverge and then 
you may end up with official debian packages owning a different set of 
files or having different install locations than ones built directly 
from upstream. Other packages which depend on or work in concert with 
packages that provide "ganglia-web" may break. And the support of two 
different sources of debian packages claiming to provide "ganglia-web" 
may be more than anyone really wants to deal with.

-Dave

On 07/19/2012 01:55 PM, Vladimir Vuksan wrote:
> Exactly. The other day I was actually missing the debian/ directory in
> ganglia-3.4.0 and as a result couldn't build it due to short timeline. Can
> we put stuff like that back in. If Debian guys don't like it we can strip
> it out for them.
>
> Vladimir
>
> On Thu, 19 Jul 2012, Bernard Li wrote:
>
>> Hi Daniel:
>>
>> One reason why we would want to keep the debian/ directory in our repo
>> is if for whatever reason the upstream Debian package doesn't get
>> updated, a user could still download our official tarball and build
>> Debian packages directly.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Bernard
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 7:41 AM, Daniel Pocock<da...@po...>  wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
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