On Friday 01 April 2005 02:12, Scott James Remnant wrote: > I was initially thinking along these lines myself > <http://www.dpkg.org/NewSourceFormat>, however I'm now starting to lean > towards not allowing arbitrary shell to just open up a source package; > it doesn't "feel" safe enough. > > I also don't want to break "cd source-version" as the definitive way to > get to the source afterwards, and am not currently sure how to do that > with packages containing multiple tarballs. > > There's also the issue of how do you clean or put a source package back > together, when it's got the patches all applied -- how do you know which > patch any modifications should go into?
Adam Heath claims to have a dbs-ng prototype which does "the right thing". See http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/04/msg00062.html Regards, David -- - hallo... wie gehts heute? - *hust* gut *rotz* *keuch* - gott sei dank kommunizieren wir Ãber ein septisches medium ;) -- Matthias Leeb, Uni f. angewandte Kunst, 2005-02-15
