Stripping info files from the jed-common package

G. Milde g.milde at web.de
Mon Jan 22 09:08:05 CET 2007


On 19.01.07, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> * G. Milde <g.milde at web.de> [2007-01-19 17:30]:

> > On 19.01.07, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> > > Items (4) and (5) alone would be enough removing the info
> > > documentation from the package, acoording to the Debian standards .
> > > I propose that we do that. Any objections?
> > 
> > No
> ...
> This means that the tarball will have to be renamed and that we will
> have to remember doing this for every new upstream release.
...

> Alternatively, we can forget about the above and decide that we will release
> 0.99.19 for lenny.  In this case, we can just remove the info directory
> before building the upstream tarball obtained from SVN.

There is also the recommendation to keep the sources pristing, if
possible. IMO the alternative should be considered (if we do not agree
on keeping the info files) and jed 99.18 left with info files.

Günter



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