bios_dev_name debian packages

[Gregory Colpart]

Hello,

On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 05:19:36PM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
> 
> Does Debian not like to see the debian/ directory included in the
> upstream release?  I'm never clear on this point.  I'd like to include
> it in the upstream tarball if that's permitted, just so when I make
> impacting changes I can fix that too.  Thoughts?

In general, we (Debian) don't like inclusion of debian/ directory
in upstream sources (or more exactly in reference tarball) for
some reasons[*]. Thanks for caring about.

[*]:
http://people.debian.org/~daniel/documents/packaging.html#debian-directory
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/06/msg00128.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2002/09/msg00274.html

Regards,
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