Ideas for packaging FreeBSD binaries

[Robert Millan]

On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 06:53:54AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> The problem I see there is that we won't package all /sbin binaries from 
> this package, as some of them will probably be provided by other debian 
> package. This also mean we will have to check license issues for all 
> stuff in the tarball instead of only the license of the /sbin binaries 
> we want to provide. This will probably be more true for the bin package.
> 
> And moreover a binary in /sbin in FreeBSD could be placed in /bin in 
> Debian and vice-versa.
> 
> What the others thing about my proposal?

Agreed.  I think the "natural" structure of their source is the one they use in
CVS.  This is what upstream developers use (and the tarballs are just for end
users to setup their /usr/src tree which sort of works like apt-get).

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Robert Millan