On 29 Apr 2006, Marc Haber stated:
> On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 18:20:32 +0200, "Bernhard R. Link"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> For me a changed .orig.tar.gz means I no longer can easily verify
>> what exactly is changed. So I have to not only to download the
>> original upstream version and unpack it and make sure the files do
>> not differ, I have effectively two diffs to look at, while one of
>> them I even have to create on my own. I prefer something makeing
>> it clear what upstream and what Debian changes are.
>
> Agreed. An accepted way to do this is to ship a shell script with
> the Debian source package which operates on an pristine upstream
> tarball obtained from upstream and delivers the Debian .orig.tar.gz
> for comparision with what's in the archive.
Err, in the case of Gnus, this is impossible. Guess what? the
reason we are mucking with Gnus and make is because we _can't_ ship
pristine upstream.
manoj
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