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On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 11:33:15AM -0700, Josh Coalson wrote: > > it's hard enough for the average user to find out how to compile > > source > > packages and checkout from CVS. The Ogg sources also includes a > > debian/ > > dir and it was much easier to build deb packages from this. Sorry, I'm just coming in in the middle of this, but I second any

On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 02:42:53PM -0400, Caleb Epstein wrote: > Sorry, I'm just coming in in the middle of this, but I second > any motion to include a debian/ dirextory directory in the > flac sources. > > In general the build scripts and control files in a debian/ > directory are pretty static and don't change from version to > version, with the exception of

>This question comes up regularly on the Debian mailing lists, and there are >arguments for both approaches. I am against the practice of including a >debian/ directory in upstream source distributions for the following >reasons: >- For the same reason, the Debian maintainer would have to have write access to > the upstream CVS repository. This is often otherwise unnecessary