first package: pd-wiimote

Roman Haefeli reduzent at gmail.com
Thu Sep 2 15:22:05 UTC 2010


On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 11:13 -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote:
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> On 02/09/10 05:10, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
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> >>>  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. In the
> current workflow, touching the upstream branch for stuff other than
> merging upstream versions is wrong IMO.
> 

Ok. It's in progress. I'll report back, when done.

Thanks for your help
Roman




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