Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Re: [Ethereal-cvs] rev 15336: /trunk/debian/: ethereal-root.d

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 15:41:44 -0700
Joerg Mayer wrote:


I'd propose not to change anything inside the debian/ directory. I've updated
this stuff from the debian packages because I wanted a comfortable way to
look at their patches ;) but the development of the debian packages is
probably not done inside the Ethereal source tree - especially as the debian
maintainer doesn't have svn commit permissions to the Ethereal repository.
As the debian package seems to be well maintained I don't see any need to
fork this process, but this is just a personal opinion.
If they're not going to use our stuff, and their packaging stuff is well-maintained, I'm not sure why we should bother keeping as part of our tree at all - we should just remove the "debian" tree and let them add it. 

Otherwise, I'd *personally* prefer that they

	1) use our stuff for building packages whenever possible

and

	2) send us any changes they make to the packaging, to keep them in sync.
Moving the one entry was done in order to keep ethereal.desktop and ethereal-root.desktop in sync as much as possible. (The only reason I see for not putting ethereal-root.desktop in our top-level directory is that different systems might use different commands for running Ethereal as root.)