Comment 8 for bug 368719

Personally, I would rather not carry around distribution specific things in
the ipython source tree. Those things should stay with the distributions
themselves. The man pages on the other hand, should go into ipython's
source tree for all dists to take advantage of.

> Moving the debian directory to a subdirectory (anything but
> <root>/debian) is fine with me.
>

> If you do not intend to build Debian packages yourself you don't have to
> include anything. svn-buildpackage takes care of "merging" your tarball
> and the debian/ directory that exists on svn.debian.org automatically.
>

Then lets *not* include this anywhere in IPython.

> As far as the manpages are concerned I believe it would be good to
> include them not only in the debian/ directory but rather somewhere
> else, so all your targeted distributions benefit from those.
>

+1

Cheers,

Brian

>
> -- Stephan
>
> --
> Remove debian/ directory from bzr repository
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/368719
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> Status in IPython - Enhanced Interactive Python: In Progress
> Status in IPython 0.10 series: In Progress
>
> Bug description:
> I just branched ipython from launchpad and noticed the repository contains
> a debian/ directory.
>
> Whilst the release tarballs do not contain that directory and are perfectly
> fine shipping the directory in the repository makes packaging development
> versions of ipython more complicated.
>
> Seeing that the debian/ directory is way outdated anyways, do you think it
> would be possible to remove this directory from the bzr repository
> altogether?
>
> -- Stephan
>

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Brian E. Granger, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Physics
Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo
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