[Pkg-gauche-devel] gauche multiarch support

[Jens Thiele]

NIIBE Yutaka <gniibe at fsij.org> writes:

> Besides, I am considering how Debian package should be maintained,
> say, for forthcoming 0.9, given the situation that upstream use Git
> and have the repositories.
>
> Having the standard repository of git-buildpackage (with pristine-tar,
> etc.) would be one way.  But, it would be overkill.
>
> It seems for me that, if we use Git to maintain Debian package and
> upstream, we don't need to stick "released source code distribution"
> which includes generated configure scripts.  It would be OK that
> Debian's "source code" for Gauche doesn't include generated configure
> scripts, but those will be generated at build time.
>
> I think:
> It is no problem for Debian packaging, even if it doesn't maintain all
> information by upstream (released source code tar ball and released
> generated configure scripts), but just maintain the Git repository of
> upstream.
>
> How do you think?

I am not sure about that one / don't really know. AFAIR to build the git
version you already need gauche? where the release tarballs are
buildable without gauche? In general I would prefer to stay as close to
upstream as possible.

Greetings,
Jens