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

[Loïc Minier]

On Sat, Mar 07, 2009, A Mennucc wrote:
> one step he asked would be to *not* rename or remove "upstream debian/"

 Could they store their upstream debian/ in another branch / location?

 It's a relatively bad idea to have the debian/ upstream; it might not
 work for all Debian-ish distributions and distro people who know how to
 maintain this stuff across transitions etc. don't have all upstream
 commit access.  Also, as Reinhard noted, the .diff.gz format doesn't
 allow for file removals and this can cause issues when we need to
 remove a file from upstream's debian/ (e.g. rename).

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Loïc Minier