Le Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 11:33:39PM +1100, Ben Finney a écrit : > > It seems to me that you can only agree with the position that "you can > check out the source to the package using 'apt-get source'. This > allows examination and midification of the source to any package" if > "the source to the package" is agreed upon.
Hi all, In that case, I think that the man page of apt-get should be authoritative on what is expected from running 'apt-get source': "source causes apt-get to fetch source packages." The definition of the debian source package in Policy C.3 does not mention that the upsteam sources must bear all the modifications that the debian/rules makefile applies to them before starting compilation and/or installation. So for the moment there is no tool for people to examinate the patched sources without having to know about the patch systems. Maybe a bit of Policy on a 'patch' rule for 'debian/rules' and an option --patch for 'apt-get source', or 'dpkg-source', would solve this aspect of the problem. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wakō, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
