Comment 8 for bug 1015868

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Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox) wrote : Re: [Bug 1015868] Re: Support both Python 2 and Python 3 plugins

On 22/06/12 00:28, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Jun 21, 2012, at 11:00 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
>
>> * when submitting debdiffs to debian, they should be:
>> - against debian source
>> - changelog as an nmu.1 version targeting unstable
>> - ubuntu specific changes removed
>>
>> in ubuntu we do not build seed plugin, but debian does.
>
> Maybe there already is, but shouldn't we have documentation somewhere,
> probably the Ubuntu packaging guide for best practices on submitting debdiffs
> to Debian? Or better yet, a tool to DTRT.
>

Well there is submittodebian, but it is not very intelligent, it expects
the user to know which bits need removing and are ubuntu specific...

pull-debian-source -> reapply relevant bits seems to be the easiest/best
way to do it. Not ideal =/

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Regards,
Dmitrijs.