On Wed, 2016-05-04 at 23:06 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Svante Signell, on Wed 04 May 2016 19:43:27 +0200, wrote: > > May I comment on Debian way of apt-get source gcc-*: Doing that > > does > > not unpack the sources, neither does it apply the patches, you have > > to > > unpack and patch before you can change sources and update patches. > > Iv'e > > patched the sources several times and still find that the updated > > patches are not included in the next build. Really confusing. > > Did you read debian/README.source?
Now I have read it, but still cannot find a convincing reason for doing things this way, sorry! Matthias, why? There should be very strong arguments for the present procedure.
