--- Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 11:40:26PM -0300, Henrique > de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > files there. Even if > > upstream keeps its debian/ up-to-date, it will > still cause you trouble if > > you have to remove a file, as you'll need to > either use dirty tricks, or > > Adding 'rm -f debian/foo' in debian/rules clean rule > is not a dirty trick. > The reason I raise this issue in the first place is actually a notion that it would be nice for users wanting bleeding-edge software to update from CVS and just run debian/rules binary or dpkg-buildpackage, the same way they can rpm -tb package.tar.gz currently (granted, most of the time one thing or another is broken. Especially the changelog - rather incredible).
Then again, most of the time the diff.gz from packages.debian.org can be applied cleanly so it is not much of a problem - just when the software has radically changed (like Glib 1.2 -> Glib 1.3). Regards, Michel ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie
