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

[Mark Purcell]

As everyone has pointed out the issue is one of sync.

I have seen this is the past where it starts out with the best of intentions, 
but over time the difficultly of keeping two different development paths in 
sync becomes a burden. Especially when a user downloads the cvs, and assumes 
it contains the latest debian/ dir, but of course it doesn't.

Also between versions things don't automagically uupgrade :-(

I would actually much prefer to see the debian/patches included upstream.

On Wednesday 03 August 2005 15:43, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> Chris Halls wrote:
> > Personally, I would like to be able to check out asterisk and have a
> > debian directory included.  But that would need someone to keep an eye on
> > the directory in the asterisk CVS.  Perhaps another solution would be to
> > keep that debian directory in the pkg-voip-maintainers archive and
> > include a script in asterisk CVS to download that directory?
>
> I like that solution; if the user who has downloaded the tarball/CVS
> checkout runs 'make deb', it would go retrieve the debian/ directory and
> then run the process to produce a deb from it. As long as there are
> debian/ directory templates available for each major Asterisk tree
> available (1.0.x and CVS HEAD right now, 1.2.x soon as well), that would
> be a simple solution.

That could work easily enough as the debian files are available at 
http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-voip/asterisk/trunk/?rev=0&sc=0, but they are 
also generally work in progress, so you might want to sync off the debian svn 
tags dirs, but then things start getting a bit confusing, as which debian 
release do you associate with which asterisk release.  Remember they don't 
autoupgrade between versions. :-(

> Since I'm the primary committer of changes to the CVS HEAD tree, I could
> easily send a notification to the appropriate party(ies) when changes
> have been committed that may affect the packaging, so that the debian/
> directory could be updated.

We could always give it a go and see how things pan out.

Mark