[Ur] Ur/Web packages for Debian

[Edward Z. Yang]

It's explained in detail here:

    http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMentorsFaq#What.27s_wrong_with_upstream_shipping_a_debian.2BAC8_directory.3F

Excerpts from Adam Chlipala's message of Sun Nov 04 07:00:47 -0800 2012:
> On 11/01/2012 02:04 PM, Edward Z. Yang wrote:
> > Excerpts from Adam Chlipala's message of Thu Nov 01 08:33:55 -0700 2012:
> >    
> >> I talked a bit with Benjamin about this, but what do you think is the
> >> best way to manage version control for the files needed for packaging?
> >> My first impulse was to put them in directories within the main urweb
> >> repo, but apparently Debian discourages this.  Another option would be
> >> one repository for all packaging metadata, but that sounds harder to
> >> keep in sync with Ur/Web versions.
> >>      
> > The Debian policy is with an eye towards the more common case
> > where the person packaging and the person maintaining upstream are
> > not the same.  It's easier for Debian to add a debian/ directory if
> > there isn't already one (especially if they need to diverge from upstream).
> >
> > The classic solution here is to maintain a separate branch 'debian'
> > which contains the relevant metadata, and keep it merged (which shouldn't
> > be too difficult.)
> >    
> 
> Why not just keep the 'debian' directory in the main branch?  I'm not at 
> all a fan of branches in distributed version control systems.  I like to 
> create separate repositories when I want parallel universes.