[GRASS5] create packaging subdirectory for 5.7?

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 02:11:28PM +0200, Silke Reimer wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 06:24:34PM +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 05:03:51PM +0200, Radim Blazek wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 31 August 2004 15:29, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 12:55:44PM +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> > > > > If there are no further suggestions,
> > > > > I would put in the work in the next days
> > > > > to create the following structures in the grass51 CVS module:
> > > > > 	rpm/
> > > > > 		specs/
> > > > > 		patches/
> > > > > and move
> > > > > 	grass.spec
> > > > > to
> > > > > 	rpm/specs/grass.mandrake.spec
> > > >
> > > > We could also do
> > > > 	packaging
> > > > 		debian
> > > > 		mandrake
> > > > 		fedora
> > > >
> > > > and then
> > > > 	move debian to
> > > > 		packaging/debian
> > > > 	move grass.spec to
> > > > 		packaging/mandrake/grass.spec
> > > >
> > > > if patches are necessary because of the dependencies we could
> > > > place them in the subdirectory specific to the distribution.
> > > >
> > > > Radim: What do you prefer?
> > > 
> > > I don't have any preferences in this case.
> > 
> > I think I'll go with the packaging structure then.
> 
> Sorry, I only read this now: I think that it isn't a good idea to
> move the debian directory into pacakges since building a debian
> package requires the debian folder to be into the main folder. Thus
> moving debian away would complicate things to the debian developer. 

This would give Debian a preferance over the other distributions
in that they always must probable move or rename the spec files.

If other Debian based distributions or other packaging formats
are targeted we might grow a few more top level directories,
which could be unwanted.

I could do it as you suggest and then when the problem arises
this could be evaluated again.

Any other opinions?

> I would suggest:
> 
> debian
> rpm
>     mandrake
>     fedora
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