On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 08:14:43PM +0000, David Nusinow wrote: > On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 11:12:15AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > What I need as someone working on a package for which I'm not the > > maintainer is this: > > > > dpkg-source -x must give me something I can immediately edit and diff > > on the resulting tree after I've edited and built it must produce a > > sane patch. So debian/rules build must not edit any source files. > > > > This is the supposedly universal interface for Debian packages, which > > the rest of us (ie, people not the package maintainer) are relying on. > > It is my opinion that packages where dpkg-source -x doesn't produce > > the source that actually gets compiled are in violation of policy. > > In every single patch system I've encountered, you can run debian/rules > patch and get the patched source. It's only one more command and I consider > it universal for all patch systems deployed in Debian.
dbs doesn't have it. It also isn't mentioned as a best practice *anywhere* I can find that people might commonly look, so it isn't immediately obvious to people who might decide to roll their own next time. - Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
