first package: pd-wiimote

Reinhard Tartler siretart at tauware.de
Thu Sep 2 15:21:54 UTC 2010


On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 17:13:03 (CEST), Felipe Sateler wrote:

> On 02/09/10 05:10, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>
>>>>  So another approach would be to repackage the
>>>> tarball to just include the COPYING file. While we are at it, we could
>>>> also use the new Makefile and get rid of the other patch.
>>>
>>> Instead of using a quilt patch should I simply replace the Makefile with
>>> the new one and check that into the master branch?
>>
>> no, that would be pretty confusing. I'd rather do these changes in the
>> 'upstream' branch branch, and have a wiimote-0.3.1.dfsg1.orig.tar.gz
>> created or something.
>>
>
> The correct approach is to have upstream fix this, not us.

Indeed.

> In the current workflow, touching the upstream branch for stuff other
> than merging upstream versions is wrong IMO.

yeah, maybe creating a designated upstream.dfsg branch would be cleaner.
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