[Pkg-gridengine-devel] SGE on Debian Unstable

[Dave Love]

Laszlo Kajan <lkajan at rostlab.org> writes:

> I found a nice explanation of what is wrong with upstream shipping a Debian directory here: [1].
>
> [1]
> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMentorsFaq#What.27s_wrong_with_upstream_shipping_a_debian.2BAC8_directory.3F

Ah, I hadn't found the mentors stuff.

I'm confused, though.  Building the source package no longer produces a
diff file, just a tarball of the debian directory, and I'd been
developing and testing it as I assumed it should be done, and it all
seemed fine.  (Obviously it would be a problem with a diff for the
debian directory, which seemed a good reason for updating to the new
scheme.)  Does that page document the current situation?

> Well, we can always repackage your upstream, deleting the 'debian'
> directory from it, and use that as the 'upstream' for Debian.

I'll remove it if necessary, but I'd like to confirm that's necessary to
avoid undoing work.

> We really have to get a shared repo or we'll end up duplicating a lot
> of effort.

If all else fails, I should be able to provide write access to a repo on
the server here, but I don't know anything about running git repos,
assuming you want git.