On 03/07/2012 07:15 PM, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > Whether it might make sense for derivatives to mangle upstream with > packaging changes in other files might be a matter of opinion > (I'm personally quite happy that is no longer possible), but > debian/control should really be something you should be able to extract > in a sane way. debian/control isn't something that should be patched in any way, IMO. We have substvars for that, and it is possible to use dpkg-vendor in order to replace variables depending on your needs.
FYI, that's one of the very ugly things that I had in mind when starting this thread. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
