El día 29 nov 2002, Jon Kent escribía: > Hi, > > apt-src, good start, really like the fact that it > figures out dependancies and creates .deb file once > complete and is fairly easy to use. > > However, there are some things I would like to see > added at some point if possible: > > 1) Option to compile dependances as opposed to > automatically downloading the dependant packages. > > 2) Option to add additional compile flags to gcc. > > 3) Option not to create a .deb file. I wouldn't want > this but some people might.
Do you mean calling directly dpkg?
> 4) With depandancies it would be nice to be told what
> must be installed and what depandancies are optional.
Build-Dependecies are always mandatory.
>
> 5) Not sure it this is possible, but maybe downloading
> source directly from author's site??
As a package mantainer you're encouraged to void makig changes to the
upstream sources, but sometimes that has to be done. Some of them
could be avoided with dpkg-source v2, but others are needed (for
example when files are removed because it doesn't follow DFSG).
The other problem I see with this is that you lose this way the
benefit of having a bunch of mirrors near you. And (if some day)
packages are signed and checked in download time, you couldn't do that
either.
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Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
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