[Pkg-gridengine-devel] SGE on Debian Unstable

[Michael Banck]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 02:30:20PM +0000, Dave Love wrote:
> > 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.
 
It's my understanding that the new source format "3.0 (quilt)" will
result in dpkg-source removing a possibly existing debian/ directory
while unpacking the source package.  So while it might not be very
elegant from a Debian point of view, it will not hurt either.

The current version of gridengine in Debian is still using the 1.0
format, though.


Michael