[Pkg-tigervnc-devel] TigerVNC debian upload

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

On Fri, 01 Mar 2013, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
> > >...<
> > I just started to look into the .dsc file and I'm a bit confused.
> > You have 3 orig files?

> Well -- 2 of them are very logical, the 3rd one (actual
> tigervnc_1.2.0+X1.12.1.902.orig.tar.gz) seems to be just a convenience
> empty one (with debian/README.Source included) to get -tigervnc one into
> its own directory under... how necessary such a step -- not sure.  Seems
> to unify things but on the other hand puts additional (but tiny)
> unnecessary burden on the archive.  Unless ftpmasters start complaining
> I would not mind it.

besides that the README comes from debian/ and any changes to it would
demand a new "upstream release"... kinda suboptimal

> May be there is more to it, Joachim could clarify.

may be tigervnc submodule could get his subdir reincarnated and just
serve the .orig.tar.gz ?  could you please rehearse the reason for that
change?

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