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...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 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 the changelog. To include them in an application's source generally involves very little overhead an...

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 the changelog. To include them > in an application's source generally inv...

>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