MySQL Bugs: #30445: Remove debian dir from main source tree

Bug #30445	Remove debian dir from main source tree
Submitted:	15 Aug 2007 16:46	Modified:	5 Apr 2008 6:50
Reporter:	Monty Taylor	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server: Packaging	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	5.0, 5.1	OS:	Linux
Assigned to:	Monty Taylor	CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
When working on debian packaging before, I put the debian packaging dir into the mainline source, even though this is contrary to debian best practices. After further consideration, the best practices are right and I was wrong. There exist a set of branches for the packaging which is orthogonal to the set of branches for the source, namely, community, enterprise and cluster are packaged differently, and there need to be packages made/branches kept for dapper, edgy, feisty, gutsy, sarge and etch. The attempt was made before to accomplish this with fancy wrapper shell scripts, but I believe this actually made the process too complex and too fragile. 

How to repeat:
Build a debian package using the packaging and then try rebuilding from the debian source package. If you don't hold your breath just right, it will not rebuild from source. 

Suggested fix:
Remove the debian dir and the references to it from configure.in and Makefile.am. This should effectively revert #27769.

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