Introduction

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:03:14AM -1000, Joel Roth wrote:
>On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 10:02:53AM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 09:21:47 (CET), Joel Roth wrote:
>> > 2) I seem to recall that a debian package does not
>> > include all the files used to create it. If so,
>> > is there a source for the original package?
>>
>> I don't understand the question.
>
>Hi Reinhard,
>
>I would like to build on previous packaging
>effort for mma.
>
>Clearly, mma couldn't have been packaged without
>a changelog. Do you know where to find it?
>
>I would hope there is another location for these files
>than the package itself. Mma's package control.tar.gz only contains
>
>	control
>	md5sums
>	mmadebian
>	postinst
>	prerm
>
>For example, a different package I maintain has these
>files in the debian/ directory.
>
>	changelog
>	compat
>	control
>	copyright
>	files
>	patches
>	rules
>	source
>	watch
>
>So my question is where can I find the
>original files used to create this debian package?


Sounds like you are confusing upstream and Debian parts: Even if 
upstream do ship a debian/ subdir, we should care for that ourselves, 
and will ship our debian/ part as a separate file when redistributing 
sources for our packaging - either as a diff or (with new dkpg-source 
format "3.0 (quilt)") as a tarball.

As for your underlying question - how to start working on this package, 
based on existing official packaging efforts, here's a smart oneliner I 
just discovered to day, which generates a new Git repository from all 
officially archived prior releases of a package (i.e. relevant when the 
package was not previously maintained in a VCS):

   git-import-dscs --debsnap --pristine-tar --sign-tags mma


Hope that helps,

  - Jonas

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