first package: pd-wiimote

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 05:21:54PM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 17:13:03 (CEST), Felipe Sateler wrote:
>
>> On 02/09/10 05:10, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>>
>>>>> So another approach would be to repackage the tarball to just 
>>>>> include the COPYING file. While we are at it, we could also use 
>>>>> the new Makefile and get rid of the other patch.
>>>>
>>>> Instead of using a quilt patch should I simply replace the Makefile 
>>>> with the new one and check that into the master branch?
>>>
>>> no, that would be pretty confusing. I'd rather do these changes in 
>>> the 'upstream' branch branch, and have a 
>>> wiimote-0.3.1.dfsg1.orig.tar.gz created or something.
>>>
>>
>> The correct approach is to have upstream fix this, not us.
>
>Indeed.
>
>> In the current workflow, touching the upstream branch for stuff other 
>> than merging upstream versions is wrong IMO.
>
>yeah, maybe creating a designated upstream.dfsg branch would be 
>cleaner.

Makes no difference in the end: What is wrong (assuming Felipe agrees 
with me here) is to *redistribute* non-pristine tarball for reasons 
other than DFSG violations.


  - Jonas

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