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diff --git a/debian/README.Debian b/debian/README.Debian index 5ad55934..88c1d553 100644 --- a/debian/README.Debian +++ b/debian/README.Debian @@ -105,4 +105,21 @@ bbstored-certs ca sign clientaccount-csr.pem You will find a more detailled documentation on the boxbackup Web site: http://www.fluffy.co.uk/boxbackup/ - -- Reinhard Tartler <siretart@tauware.de>, Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:04:01 +0200 + +"Upstream" tarball +------------------ + +Althogh upstream indeed publishes tarballs, the debian package is no +longer based on these tarballs. The reason for this is that the +procedure for creating these tarballs makes package maintenance and +interaction with upstream unnecessary hard. + +Moreover, there seem to be different types of tarballs. Official ones +used for a release and "unofficial" ones that are created for snapshot +releases, causing further confusion. + +Since upstream releases rather seldomly, but we want to distribute +pre-releases and integrate patches from the upstream svn, the package +ships a script in the source that is used to create the orig.tar.gz. + + -- Reinhard Tartler <siretart@tauware.de>, Wed, 1 Apr 2009 09:53:08 +0200 |