Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As someone who's occasionally done some bug fixing to random packages, > I'd really like to see some solution that allows us to mandate that the > following sequence must work for all source packages: > > dpkg-source -x foo_1.2-3.dsc > cd foo-1.2 > sensible-editor * > sensible-editor debian/changelog > dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc > > In other words: dpkg-source must unpack sources that can be directly > edited and then dpkg-buildpackage will build a new, modified package > that can be uploaded. > > If it's an NMU, then the package's maintainers can get the NMU'd version > and include any changes in it in a way that suits their workflow.
This work flow simply doesn't work with our current source package format and a patch management system. Requiring this to work *with the current source package format* essentially means outlawing using patch management systems to manage Debian packages. That's why this proposal is controversial. (No, this doesn't depend on whether one applies the patches in the clean target. Consider the NMUer modifying a file that's also modified by two patches.) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
