What to use in packaging

[Joey Hess]

Bas Wijnen wrote:
> The idea is to let the svn repository only hold changed files.  Together with
> the original source for that release it can build a package.  Obviously when
> there's a new upstream version, we can't use apt to get the source tarball.

When there's a new upstream version you download it from the upstream
web site. When doing an update you get the source from svn. I don't see
where keeping tarballs on alioth comes into it.

> Actually, if we take this approach, I think using dpatch would be sensible.
> Merging the original tarball with the changed files in svn would pretty much
> come down to patching anyway.

Which is a good reason not to do it that way. Not keeping all files in
svn is a false optimistion, you're trading exceedingly cheap (and
efficiently used) disk space for time and compexity.

-- 
see shy jo
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