On Wednesday, June 01, 2011 10:26:59 AM sean finney wrote: > On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 02:39:42PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > And note that as maintainer or for the VCS copy you can allways > > configure debian/soruce/local-options to unapply patches if you so > > desire. > > This is something i've been doing quite happily and I think it is > a pretty decent compromise for the user/maintainer use cases. > > If you're building from the VCS there may be a difference in behavior, > but if you build a downloaded source package (or even a source package > generated from the VCS), the behavior is consistant.
I tend to touch many packages and only revisit them infrequently so I don't generally have a local copy of the package to have modified when I start work. So for me the general workflow for using debian/source/local-options would be something like: download package/check out fom VCS oh, this is V3 unapply patches add debian/source/local-options work on package apply patches if needed upload rm -fr the package debian/source/local-options doesn't really help me much Not making the package source format 3 on the other hand conveniently provides the workflow I want in a persistent manner with no recurring effort needed. Scott K -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201106011156.44439.deb...@kitterman.com
