Merging our sources

[Jordi Mallach]

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 07:16:47PM +0200, Emmanuel Kasper wrote:
> One hand if you drop the sdlmame package now, users making an upgrade
> from the last LTS release to the next one will miss the package
> transition. OTOH if we add a sdlmame virtual package, as there is no
> sdlmame package in the debian archive, it will for sure make some people
> ( lintian .. ) not happy.

I don't think Lintian will argue about this, but I admit it's ugly to have
transitional packages in Debian for a package that never was in Debian.

After giving it some thought, though, I have dropped my grumpiness.
Another solution would be that Cesare uploaded a dummy "sdlmame" source
package which just included the transitional packages in Ubuntu. I'm not
sure if that's common in Ubuntu, but if it is, that might be the cleanest
solution in order to avoid polluting Debian with non-Debian stuff. But
again, Cesare, if you don't think this idea is possible, let's go with the
dummies in Debian and let it be.

> > I'd like to import single overridings to dh_* targets in spite of having
> > override_dh_auto_install calling them. It's more consistent IMHO.

Wow, good catch. I had not noticed it myself.

> IMHO, for the mess package building in debian/rules, let stick now with
> what we have in git and if it proves unmaintanable we will change it

I don't remember Cesare's version, but if it's more or less the same,
yeah, let's keep this one and see how it goes.

Jordi
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