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Re: Changing the way we deal with source archives

From: Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>
> I have several packages which I rename to fit the <package>-<version>
> convention.

You can go on doing that. I think it's packages that already comply to the
GCS that we want to be able to pass on with the source unmodified.

> Additionnaly, I have a couple of packages where some stuff from the original
> file has been deleted (because it's not built for Debian). It's only
> esoteric features. The deletion of a part of the source tree is documented
> in the README.debian.

I would suggest you do the deletion in such a way that the .diff.gz file
calls out the fact that files have been deleted rather than delete them
from the upstream source and then upload a modified version of the upstream
source. Changing the upstream source that way feels gratituitous to me,
perhaps this is something I'm too prissy about, but I'd like to preserve
trace-ability of any modifications that Debian people made to a package.

	Thanks

	Bruce
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