On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 01:21:29AM +0100, Martin Waitz wrote: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 02:25:36PM -0600, David Starner wrote: > > If a package source does not come fully unpacked - i.e. it uses a > > DBS-like system - debian/rules must include an unpack target, that > > unpacks the source code and applies all patches to it. > > i think this is the wrong approach > > there should be a standard tool which can cope with dbs packages, > preferable this support should be build into dpkg-source.
One day ... > there is a 'dbs' package in debian, doesn't it include such > an unpack utility? You're assuming that all packages that use various versions of DBS and of other build-time patching systems have anything to do with the code in the dbs package, which many of them don't. For a start, there are at least two major forks of the system known as DBS. Although I'd oppose this being 'must', I would love to see a documented optional target in order to promote consistency. Given agreement among the maintainers of source-patching packages, policy is the right place to document debian/rules targets. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
