[SCM] BOINC packaging branch, debian-folder-release, updated. 83fd97f1c8dbc41ecff94d4f3721ce7e6bd821d2

[Steffen Moeller]

The following commit has been merged in the debian-folder-release branch:
commit 83fd97f1c8dbc41ecff94d4f3721ce7e6bd821d2
Author: Steffen Moeller <steffen_moeller at gmx.de>
Date:   Sun Jan 6 20:22:07 2013 +0100

    Better README.Debian.

diff --git a/debian/README.Debian b/debian/README.Debian
index 12003f3..1e064b8 100644
--- a/debian/README.Debian
+++ b/debian/README.Debian
@@ -1,20 +1,31 @@
-The package provides two virtual packages that help with package
-dependencies to support the employment of graphics cards with the
-computations. For NVidia this is fine, but the AMD/ATI fglrx drivers
-are regularly incompatible with the latest releases of X. At
-the very moment the release team has hence decided to remove those
-and all source packages that depend with a binary on them, to
-be removed from the testing distribution.
+BOINC for Debian and Ubuntu
+===========================
 
-To have BOINC back in, and to help eliminate an older mysql dependency,
-this release now sees the OpenCL helper package for AMD/ATI removed.
-This is temporary, I very much hope.
+Debian and Ubuntu developers maintain the BOINC packages together
+on the pkg-boinc alioth.debian.org project. You may be interested
+to hear
 
-----
+ * There is a 'boinc' source package for regular clients. Additionally,
+   a 'boinc-experimental' source package provides the very latest
+   developments.
 
-Upstream at times performs changes to the boinc-client and the
-boinc-server at the same time. The clients set the pace for releases
-and hence sometimes the server package should better not be released.
-The preparation of the boinc-server-maker package is now made optional.
-Anybody commenting out the package in debian/control will have the
-package rebuilt for the client only.
+   The motivation for the redundancy is because of Upstream developing
+   the BOINC client and server code asynchronously. The packaging code
+   is mostly shared between the two.
+
+ * The package provides two virtual packages to help with package
+   dependencies to support the employment of graphics cards with the
+   computations. For NVidia this is fine, but the AMD/ATI fglrx drivers
+   are regularly incompatible with the latest releases of X. At
+   the very moment the release team has hence decided to remove those
+   and all source packages that depend with a binary on them, to
+   be removed from the testing distribution.
+
+   To have BOINC back in, and to help eliminate an older mysql dependency,
+   this release now sees the OpenCL helper package for AMD/ATI removed.
+   This is temporary, I very much hope.
+
+ * For our own motivation, and also for us maintainers communicating with
+   upstream to help them recognize how important the Debian/Ubuntu
+   packaging is for BOINC, please consider to install the
+   popularity-contest package.

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BOINC packaging