[kpfleming@digium.com: debian/ in asterisk tarball]

[Tzafrir Cohen]

[forgot to CC Kevin. Please CC replies to him as well]

Hi

The Asteerisk tarball currently contains an rpm spec and there is a
makefile target 'rpm' for building an rpm package.

Kevin has experessed interest in making it similarly easy to create a
deb of the current code (e.g: from HEAD). Currently our packages do map 
rather nicely to Asterisk CVS packages (because they are based on them).
I'm already working on adapting the build process and patches and hope
to get some sort of daily build debs soon.

One problem I see with that is that including a debian/ subdirectory in
the CVS will break the assumptions of standard debian build process that
assumes the debian diff only adds files to /debian .

Any better thoughts?

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Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 00:29:34 -0500
From: "Kevin P. Fleming" <kpfleming at digium.com>
To: Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir at xorcom.com>
Subject: Re: disclaimer and plans

Tzafrir Cohen wrote:

>Debian maintainers tend to prefer not to have a debian/ subdirectory in
>the upstream package, because there is an implicit assumpltion that
>all the files in debian/ will simply be added and thus there will never
>be rejected as patches.

I was thinking more along the lines of giving end users the ability to 
create their own .debs (like make-kpkg does for the kernel) so they can 
make a zaptel/asterisk build and install their binaries on 
other/multiple systems without requiring development tools on those systems.


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