on upstream debian/ , Re: [SCM] mplayer packaging branch, master, updated. 23fdd8bc0ecf6a13222e4d3c8a1cd1826b39b01b

[Reinhard Tartler]

A Mennucc <mennucc1 at debian.org> writes:

> Reinhard Tartler ha scritto:
>> Fabian Greffrath <greffrath at leat.rub.de> writes:
>>
>>> Reinhard Tartler schrieb:
>>>> OK, now you might argue that the 'upstream.unstripped' branch might then
>>>> not match the actual upstream release. That's not correct as well, as we
>>>> do some modifications even here: rename the upstream debian/ directory
>>>> to debian_upstream/. It is not even bit-identical here.
>>> May I ask why you do this at all and not simply remove the upstream
>>> debian/ directory from our orig.tar.gz if you don't use it?
>>
>> Good point.
>>
>> I didn't want to change the behavior at this point.
>
> recently I exchanged a few emails with Diego; we would like to have a
> better convergence of "Debian debian/" and "upstream debian/"
>
> one step he asked would be to *not* rename or remove "upstream debian/"

okay, I will discuss this with Diego as soon as I catch him on irc
then. If I can convince him, then I'll remove it from our package.

> this must be thought of carefully , since there are some files in
> "upstream debian/" that are not in ours; and the standard mechanism of
> dsc+diff.gz+orig.tar.gz cannot delete files; and some tools (debhelper,
> dpkg-buildpackage) use "existence of files" as a trigger, etc etc

exactly. That's why my patch goes against debian/get-orig-source.sh, the
script that creates the orig.tar.gz. This way we can do ANY modification
we seem fit to the orig.tar.gz and don't have to care about them later
during packaging.

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