On 06/15/2012 01:50 PM, Gergely Nagy wrote: > While having a standardized way would be useful, there's just so many > workflows, that you can't possibly cover all of them with a single > syntax, and in the end, you'd end up with having to call > package-specific scripts in the source. > > We already have Vcs-*, to check out the debian branch. If debian/rules > would have an optional target, similar to get-orig-source, that would > finish checking out the repository, grabbing upstream stuff, and setting > up branches too, that would solve your problem. > > debcheckout could be extended to check whether the target exists, and > call it too, so in the end, you'd end up with using a single command, > that gets you what you want. > > And we didn't attempt to cover every different case with a single syntax > in debian/control, or another file. > > Call this target get-vcs-source or similar, and voila! > Hi,
Yeah, a hook of any sorts is ok for me. The get-vcs-source in debian/rules seems quite ok to me. Should debcheckout be modified to call it? It's part of devscript, do you think it's ok if I submit a wishlist bug report against devscript to ask for such feature? Thomas -- 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/4fdb0169.3020...@debian.org
