On Tue, 31 Oct 1995, David Engel wrote: >First, I prefer to go with unmodified, upstream source. Second, I >really mean unmodified, i.e.. the Debianizing script (or whatever) must >take care of unpacking into subdirectories, if necessary.
I'll go further and say that I think that any approach that does not include as one of its goals the ability to work with totally virgin source archives is a total waste of time because it doesn't buy us enough to justify the work. So if we start from the assumption that we will have a separate, totally unmodified source .tar.gz, that means we will have at a minimum two files. So, what can we have that other file to be? I would propose that it be a script (humanly readable, though it doesn't have to be the prettiest thing around) that knows how to create a directory, unpack the virgin sources into that directory, and then patch the sources from patches included in its body. Seems to me that this doesn't have to be particularly hard, so I must be missing something, right? Mike. -- "I'm a dinosaur. Somebody's digging my bones."
