[Scummvm-devel] dists/debian maintanance

[David Weinehall]

On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 03:56:51PM +0000, Grahame White wrote:
> On Saturday 04 February 2006 11:43, Max Horn wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Strong arguments, not really. Although, personally, I prefer to do it this 
> way as I'm used to it now having used this method for almost as long as 
> I've used Scummvm. Having a package also makes upgrades pretty clean and 
> easy on the whole.
> 
> So basically if it stays then fine, if not I'll just have to adapt.

Isn't the existing debian package in Unstable satisfactory?

If not, sure I guess I can clean up the dists/debian thingie, but
then I'll modify in a way that makes it obvious that the package is
not in any way related to the official Debian packages.


Regards: David
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