Svante Signell, on Wed 04 May 2016 23:25:28 +0200, wrote: > 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.
See rules.patch. You can't get this behavior with the simple dpkg patching. Samuel
