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

[Reinhard Tartler]

Loïc Minier <lool at dooz.org> writes:

> 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).

Diego seems more interested in adopting (or at least merging) 'our'
debian/ directory into upstream. The point of that is persumably making
it a convenience to create test packages for developers.

anyway, it seems upstream (and specifically Diego) has no problem with
having debian/ removed when creating the orig.tar.gz as noted in the
commit message. I've therefore adapted the get-orig-source.sh script to
do that change and merge the new tarball into the 'master' and
'master.unstripped' branch.

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