[Scummvm-devel] dists/debian maintanance

Max Horn max at quendi.de
Sat Feb 4 03:44:05 CET 2006


Am 04.02.2006 um 12:31 schrieb Grahame White:

>
>> Generally, we try to avoid having Debian specific stuff in upstream,
>> since it tends to get out of sync.  There are of course some cases
>> when it might be useful, such as when there isn't any package in the
>> Debian archives (if, for instance the upstream software does not
>> meet the Debian Free Software Guidelines), or when the Debian  
>> maintainer
>> is very inactive.  I hope none of those conditions should apply here
>> though (I'll try to step down if I get too sloppy in my  
>> maintenance work
>> on scummvm...), so my suggestion would be to just remove that  
>> directory,
>> unless someone has any objections.
>
> Does this mean that in the future we wont be able to do 'make deb' to
> create a package of scummvm?

That would be implied, yes.

Are there any strong arguments why one would want to do such a "make  
deb" build?


Max





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