[Pkg-xmpp-devel] jabberd2 in debian

[Daniel Pocock]

On 28/08/14 15:59, Willem van den Akker wrote:
> 
>> Oops, sorry I just did some of this.  Let me know if you think it
>> should be done differently.  I followed the ideas here:
>>
>> http://honk.sigxcpu.org/projects/git-buildpackage/manual-html/gbp.special.html
>>
>> Or actually I re-invented those instructions (using the upstream+dfsg
>> branch name instead of dfsg_clean) before finding the documentation.
> 
> Looks good to me.
> 
>> > I previously asked around in the mentors channel. Just adding the
>> > lintian-message
>> > to the override was also sufficient. But this is a nicer way to go.
>>
>> Yeah, I also asked this on mentors and got the suggestion to do lintian
>> override but then people disagreed and thought it really should be
>> re-packaged.  I tried to stay out of the flamewar :-)
> Great idea ;)
> 


You definitely need to repackage in these situations.  These policies
are only going to become more and more strict.

As you've observed, though, it is easier to track such things with
git-buildpackage or other scripts.  Some people just use a
.gitattributes file for example.