[Pkg-ime-devel] [RFS] gcin 2.7.5+dfsg-1

[Osamu Aoki]

On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 10:25:59PM +0800, Yao Wei (魏銘廷) wrote:
> 2012/3/6 Osamu Aoki <osamu at debian.org>:
> > Actually, they do not need to do this since we use source/format 3.0
> > (quilt).  In old days, having debian directory was problem.  But no
> > more. Maybe telling this will help upstream for their local build test
> > as native package.
> 
> I forwarded to gcin upstream, but their concern is that building a
> debian package may leave `debian` directory not cleaned. (They wrote a
> shell script which copies `debian-pkg` directory to `debian` and calls
> use dpkg-buildpackage -b to build their package, but I don't know if
> there is a better way to do.)

This was the well known old trick ... new dpkg can handle dirty debian
directory in upstream as long as we (Debian/Ubuntu) use new packaging
format 3.0.

If they want to stay old way since they are supporting older releases,
it does not harm doing `debian-pkg`.

Osamu