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Re: Guidence on package development

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On Thu, Dec 04, 2025 at 01:40:27AM +0530, Jai kadam wrote:
>Thanks for the clarification, but this thing is really scratching my mind
>why are we making chages in a already debinized repo?

Because your task, at the highest abstraction level, is to move the 
packaging on top of the new upstream version, adapting it in the process 
if needed. 

>If a version 2 of a
>package is in upstream why would someone patch the already debinized repo
>instead of patching the new upstream and debianzing it ?

It's possible that your definitions of "patch", "debianize" and "make 
changes" are different from the usual ones, or maybe that you are 
misunderstanding some basic parts of the workflows involved.

-- 
WBR, wRAR

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    Re: Guidence on package development Jai kadam <jaivkadam@gmail.com> - 2025-12-03 21:20 +0100
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