Vorbis dev - Mar 2008 - [rfc] Shipping the debian folder in release archives?

I noticed we ship the <debian> folder with at least
these libraries:

   libogg-1.1.3
   vorbis-tools-1.2.0

By doing this we take the packaging code out of the
Debian diffs where some people might be expecting it.
Is this a problem? What benefits do you see in shipping it?

Greetings,



Sebastian

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 10:28 AM, Sebastian Pipping <webmaster@binera.de>
wrote:
> I noticed we ship the <debian> folder with at least
>  these libraries:
>
>    libogg-1.1.3
>    vorbis-tools-1.2.0
>
>  By doing this we take the packaging code out of the
>  Debian diffs where some people might be expecting it.
>  Is this a problem? What benefits do you see in shipping it?
Not qualified to answer, really; I believe this was the strategy of
the debian package maintainer at the time.

Monty

Hi Sebastian,

    I'm going to be maintaining the debian packages for all the
annodex libraries so I can't really speak for the xiph libraries.

    But in our case I'm leaving the debian folder in SVN as I use
svn-buildpackage to build the packages. The debian directory is not
added to the distribution tar.gz created by make dist and therefore
the debian stuff does end up in the debian .diff file.

    I've been doing it this way mainly for convenience and so any
annodex developer can make changes to the debian packages where
necessary.

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 06:31:51AM +1100, Silvia Pfeiffer
wrote:
> Are you fixing this?
> S.
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Sebastian Pipping <webmaster@binera.de>
> Date: Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 2:28 AM
> Subject: [Vorbis-dev] [rfc] Shipping the debian folder in release archives?
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> 
> 
> I noticed we ship the <debian> folder with at least
> these libraries:
> 
>   libogg-1.1.3
>   vorbis-tools-1.2.0
> 
> By doing this we take the packaging code out of the
> Debian diffs where some people might be expecting it.
> Is this a problem? What benefits do you see in shipping it?
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> 
> 
> Sebastian
> 
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