[Scummvm-devel] dists/debian maintanance

Grahame White grahame at regress.homelinux.org
Sat Feb 4 03:33:01 CET 2006


> 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?

grahame




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