On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 11:25:06AM +0000, Johan Sundstr�m (Achtung Liebe!) @ Pike (-) developers forum wrote:
The idea was that since the Debian packages of Pike broke much Pike functionality and we (upstream Pike developers) knew and saw so little of what happened when with the Debian Pike port, except feedback from Debian users that ended up with us instead of in the Debian package's bug reports where they are supposed to go, ...we invited the code to live directly in the Pike codebase, where it would at least be visible to us, even if the Debian maintainer's decisions on packaging were still final (I think people tried to help point out patches that prevented Debian's pike from building external modules, but stopped, when there was little action to re-enable that).
these issues have been fixed by marek a long time ago! all it took was a bug report to the debian bugtracking system and a few pointers as to what exactly was broken along with suggestions to fix it.
in general i believe that things like the debian/ stuff should always go with the rest of the source to make it easier for anyone else to use it and build their own packages if they so desire.
greetings, martin.