Comment 4 for bug 1085055

On 01/12/12 at 11:31 -0000, Jean-Vincent Loddo wrote:
> So, it's a good idea to package the trunk. The best solution could be
> to integrate the packaging scripts into the trunk itself. Is it possible
> and suitable, in your opinion, with your experience as debian packager?

There are two things:
- provide official packages in Debian and Ubuntu
- provide unofficial packages

For official packages, the recommended practice is to use a separate
repository to handle all the packaging work. Debian is organized in
teams, and I already got in touch with the pkg-ocaml team, so I would
just re-use their infrastructure and packaging practices.

The main reason for keeping a separate repository for the packaging work
is that it makes it possible to update the package without doing a new
software release (imagine a bug that only affects Debian).

Then, if official packages are available in Debian and Ubuntu, I'm not
sure if unofficial packages are still needed. If they are, it's easier
for Debian if you don't put the packaging scripts in the same
repository.

Lucas