".gitattributes" file causes GitHub releases (zip/tar.gz) to be missing the "debian" directory

[mjnowen]

For an unknown reason, a .gitattributes file exists in the root of the repo, which causes the GitHub release process to remove the debian directory from its archive file (both zip and tar.gz are affected). This is rather bad as any debian based compile/build where the source code is retrieved via wget/curl of these release file(s) will be missing amongst other things, this patch file:
https://github.com/amazonlinux/amazon-ec2-net-utils/blob/main/debian/patches/update-networkd-priorities.patch
which makes this entire package operate correctly for systems where netplan is present.

[mjnowen]

Workaround is ensure you use git clone for this project to ensure you retrieve the entire repo, including debian directory.

[ozbenh]

Interestingly Amazon Linux 2023 does ship netplan as an option (we don't use it by default), so we should probably have this

[nmeyerhans]

For an unknown reason, a .gitattributes file exists in the root of the repo, which causes the GitHub release process to remove the debian directory from its archive file (both zip and tar.gz are affected).

This is because Debian does not need or want that directory in the upstream source.

#156 is not the right solution to this problem. Downstream integration belongs in distro specific branches or forks. The debian subdirectory in the debian source package is where integration for Debian and derivatives lives.