[Scummvm-devel] dists/debian maintanance

[David Weinehall]

On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 11:49:39AM +0100, Max Horn wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> 
> since you are now the Debian maintainer for ScummVM, you might want  
> to take a look at dists/debian and update/remove/fix it.
>
> First off, it is now affected by the following bug (includes a  
> proposed solution):
>   <https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php? 
> func=detail&aid=1423793&group_id=37116&atid=418820>
> 
> Note that we now have a script (tools/update-version.pl) which  
> modifies various source files to insert the proper version there. If  
> desired, it could be used to modify e.g. dists/debian/prepare, which  
> would also fix the above issue.
> 
> The files in dists/debian/ also still refer to tore, and are (I  
> think) roughly at the state of ScummVM 0.7.1...

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.


Regards: David
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