On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 11:11:14PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 10:13:49PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > #250202: [PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with > > non-trivial source > > > > Bleh. This is kind of a mess. > > > > I don't like the last wording proposal in that it advocates strongly > > against using quilt or dpatch, which as near as I can tell from other > > Debian mailing list discussion and packaging teams are widely considered > > best practices inside Debian even though they don't immediately give you > > editable source. > > It does not advocate against quilt/dpatch: you can use quilt or dpatch > and provide editable source. It is just a matter of having clean depend > on 'patch' instead of 'unpatch'.
Which would mean you'd have the patches twice in your .diff.gz file, since dpkg-buildpackage runs the clean rule before dpkg-source'ing. That is a pretty bad idea. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
