r325 - /web/deps/dep14.mdwn

[hertzog at users.alioth.debian.org]

Author: hertzog
Date: Mon Jul  6 13:21:43 2015
New Revision: 325

URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/dep/?sc=1&rev=325
Log:
Say a word about repositories hosting only the Debian directory

Modified:
    web/deps/dep14.mdwn

Modified: web/deps/dep14.mdwn
URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/dep/web/deps/dep14.mdwn?rev=325&op=diff
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--- web/deps/dep14.mdwn	(original)
+++ web/deps/dep14.mdwn	Mon Jul  6 13:21:43 2015
@@ -224,6 +224,12 @@
 need the upstream sources in Git to manage this patch series as a Git
 branch.
 
+When you have good reasons to only store the `debian` packaging directory
+(for example when the uptream sources are really huge and contains mostly
+non-patchable data), you can do so but you should then document
+this in `debian/README.source` along with some explanations of the tool
+to use to build the package.
+
 Managing debian/changelog
 -------------------------