[Gpe-list] Debian directories

[Graham Cobb]

I noticed that Philippe has removed the debian directory from gpe-timesheet at 
the request of the downstream debian maintainer.  I wonder whether we should 
do that for all the components that have a debian directory?

While creating Maemo packages I noticed that some components have debian 
directories and others do not and, even when they are present, they are not 
necessarily useful.  Most components make use of the "patch" feature in MUD 
to modify the debian directory in some way before building the Maemo 
packages.

I had thought of contributing my patches and making the changes in the GPE SVN 
but I was not sure if the debian directories were used for anything else and 
it didn't seem right to have Maemo-specific debian directories.

After seeing the request from the gpe-timesheet debian packager I am inclined 
to think that we should just remove the debian directories from all the GPE 
components (starling, gpe-mini-browser, gpe-ownerinfo1, libgpeplugin, 
gpe-icons, gpe-todo, gpe-calendar, keylaunch, gpe-today, gpe-contacts, 
libgpevtype, gpe-edit, libtododb, libxsettings-client, bluez-pin, 
libgpewidget, libgpepimc).  What do others think?

One disadvantage of removing them might be losing the changelog and copyright 
files.  It would probably be worth checking that everything has a ChangeLog 
and a COPYING file in the main directory.

Graham