Re: delete debian/ from trunk

Martin Paljak wrote:
> I do complain - I say we keep there something from the current debian
> packages that would allow easy creation of debian packages from svn
> checkouts. Although on could say that the debian packaging and
> versioning has nothing to do with the upstream, but it is still better
> to keep something _sensible_ there so that one should not have to keep
> different control files around for example. Better yet - I´d say Eric
> should have access to that directory to keep stuff around there so
> that it would be as close to the core project as possible - in

that raises the question if we want to give every package maintainer
write access to our repository. From a security point of view I don't
like that idea.

> addition to debian policy compliant packaging there are lots of other
> projects that might make use of the debian package related stuff.
>
> As it is anyway not included in the distribution tarball i don´t think
> that it should be deleted from the version control repo - in case it
> would be deleted, I´d reap out other ´dead´ code too like the openscd
> code.

no objection against removing (in the svn sense) of openscd (but you
should perhaps ask the list in a separate thread)

Nils