Re: [PATCH infiniband-diags] Adding support for Debian packaging

[Ilya Nelkenbaum <ilyan-LDSdmyG8hGV8YrgS2mwiifqBs+8SCbDb@public.gmane.org>]

On 2/27/2013 11:21 PM, Roland Dreier wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Or Gerlitz <or.gerlitz-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> You can also take a look on the upstream trees for libibverbs and
>> libmlx4 maintained by Roland which have a debian dir, which you
>> probably can re-use for the managment libraries and opensm, here are
>> the gitweb pointers,
>>
>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=libs/infiniband/libibverbs.git;a=summary
>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=libs/infiniband/libmlx4.git;a=summary
> 
> I happen to maintain the Debian packaging for libibverbs and libmlx4
> in the same source tree as the upstream source.  However it's actually
> easier in the case where the Debian packaging maintainer and the
> upstream maintainer are different just to leave debian/ directory out
> of the upstream source.  If you're not really that familiar with
> Debian packaging and Debian policy, it's probably best just to leave
> the packaging to the Debian project.
> 
>  - R.
> 

Hi Roland,

As I understand Debian releases happen less often that the updates and bug fixes in management packages,
and in case of critical bug fix or some important new feature, client that uses
a specific package and needs the Debian support cannot just use the latest upstream version
but will have to wait for the Debian release.

So I guess in such cases it might help and it will also leave less work for the Debian maintainer

What do you think?

Ilya
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