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From: "Catalin Marinas" <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [StGit] Debian packaging update
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:57:02 +0100
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2008/8/22 Daniel White <daniel@whitehouse.id.au>:
> Since it is now packaged by Debian is it still necessary to be
> maintaining Debian packaging?

This is mainly to make it easier for Debian maintainers. Someone might
also want to build a .deb package for a different version or flavour
of Debian.

> Having a look at the Debian version, they have made quite a few changes
> against our packaging.  It might be worth getting some patches from
> them that are not specific to Debian policy (like the setup of bash
> completion).

I don't follow the Debian package much but I'll have a look to see the
differences.

-- 
Catalin