[RTPproxy Devel] debian directory in source distribution

[Stefan Sayer]

Marcus Better wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I noticed that current development versions of rtpproxy contain debian
> packaging stuff in the debian/ directory. As one of the maintainers of
> rtpproxy in Debian, I kindly ask you to remove that directory from the
> source package, since
> 
> (a) it is completely broken and guaranteed not to give a working package
> - in fact most files there are just templates from dh_make,
> (b) it does not have the proper integration with Debian and can
> therefore cause bugs that would never have been allowed in a real Debian
> package [1],
> (c) non-developer users of Debian do not usually have the tools to use
> the contents of a debian/ directory, they just "apt-get install rtpproxy",
> (d) developers that want to build an upstream snapshot from source use
> the proper Debian tools, and these do *not* use a debian/ dir from the
> tarball either,
sorry for my ignorance, but can you give me a pointer on what the proper 
way is to do that?

I built a package from source with the provided debian dir and it worked 
out nicely with the only exception of [1] (for which I'd make a patch to 
svn version to include if it wasn't unnecessary according to you). 
Wouldn't it be convenient to provide at least in pkg/debian subdir a 
fixed debian dir from downstream?

thanks
Stefan

> (e) the Debian maintainers are forced to remove the debian/ directory
> anyway [2].
> 
> We have just uploaded version 1.0.2 to the archive and plan to keep up
> with stable releases.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Marcus
> 
> [1] http://lists.rtpproxy.org/pipermail/devel/2008-March/000011.html
> [2]
> http://people.debian.org/~daniel/documents/packaging.html#debian-directory
> 
> 
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