[Btrfs-devel] Debian packaging

[Adrian von Bidder]

On Wednesday 11 July 2007 16.35:04 Chris Mason wrote:
[debian pkgs]

> Great, thanks for doing these.  If the people making packages need me
> to store some files in the btrfs repos (spec files or whatever), feel
> free to send them along.

For Debian, it's recommended practice to not store the packaging information 
in the original source.  That way, Debian package releases and upstream 
releases can happen independently.


>
> > I hope giving Btrfs wider exposure in this way is in your interest,
> > too.
>
> Definitely, but please keep a big warning in there that the disk format
> will change a few more times and that no backwards compatibility will
> be provided.

Yes, I'm doing this.

>
> > Since I have the impression that you're doing 0.x releases quite
> > often and especially do them when grave data corruption bugs crop up,
> > I think packaging releases instead of snapshots is ok.
>
> Yes, the releases are the way to go.

Ok.

Btw:

Index: Makefile
===================================================================
--- Makefile    (.../upstream/Makefile) (revision 1588)
+++ Makefile    (.../trunk/Makefile)    (revision 1602)
@@ -18,5 +18,5 @@
 all::
        $(MAKE) -C $(KERNELDIR) M=`pwd` modules
 clean::
-       rm *.o btrfs.ko
+       rm -f *.o btrfs.ko
 endif

(in the modules source)

cheers
-- vbi


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