packaging LibreCAD (was: Bug#605914: Any news on this?)

David Bremner bremner at debian.org
Sun Apr 17 21:18:26 UTC 2011


On Sun, 17 Apr 2011 17:01:19 -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer <perezmeyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I associate dfsg in the package's name as something to know that the original 
> tarball has been somehow modified to comply with the DFSG. In this case, the 
> source was modified to not ship libs that are already available in Debian, so 
> I *think* the name must not be modified (ie., 1.0~beta5 would be just fine).

I think rather something like 1.0~beta5+ds1 would be more typical. 
Any kind of repacking should be indicated somehow, and ds = "debian
source" seems to be a common convention.

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