On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 11:54:02AM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > I'm packaging HISAT whose sources are available as a zip archive. This > means that I have to replace the unpack phase to use "unzip" to unpack > the source archive. Unfortunately, it seems that I cannot use snippets > for "static" patches to the sources when a zip archive is used (rather > than a tarball).
Actually, I recently wondered about the same thing concerning a single file I wanted to download and patch. I suppose this makes the problem even worse... Anyway, in my case it is more a distraction, as I can easily run the snippet in the install phase. Andreas
