[tor-dev] packaging advice needed

[Roger Dingledine]

On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 10:35:57PM -0400, Magnus Hedemark wrote:
> I tried searching the site for advice for packagers but haven't found
>any. If I've overlooked it, I'd appreciate a nudge in the right direction.

I think our current advice is "do it like the deb does it".

https://gitweb.torproject.org/debian/tor.git/tree/debian
e.g.
https://gitweb.torproject.org/debian/tor.git/tree/debian/tor.init

Not because Debian-the-OS is better, but because our particular
Debian packager is particularly great.

--Roger