on upstream debian/ , Re: [SCM] mplayer packaging branch, master, updated. 23fdd8bc0ecf6a13222e4d3c8a1cd1826b39b01b

[A Mennucc]

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Reinhard Tartler ha scritto:
> Fabian Greffrath <greffrath at leat.rub.de> writes:
> 
>> Reinhard Tartler schrieb:
>>> OK, now you might argue that the 'upstream.unstripped' branch might then
>>> not match the actual upstream release. That's not correct as well, as we
>>> do some modifications even here: rename the upstream debian/ directory
>>> to debian_upstream/. It is not even bit-identical here.
>> May I ask why you do this at all and not simply remove the upstream
>> debian/ directory from our orig.tar.gz if you don't use it?
> 
> Good point.
> 
> I didn't want to change the behavior at this point.

recently I exchanged a few emails with Diego; we would like to have a
better convergence of "Debian debian/" and "upstream debian/"

one step he asked would be to *not* rename or remove "upstream debian/"

this must be thought of carefully , since there are some files in
"upstream debian/" that are not in ours; and the standard mechanism of
dsc+diff.gz+orig.tar.gz cannot delete files; and some tools (debhelper,
dpkg-buildpackage) use "existence of files" as a trigger, etc etc

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