Re: Source packages: standard formats and interfaces as an alternative to centralisation.

2010-05-27 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 28 May 2010, Charles Plessy wrote: [ Skipping the part that makes no sense to me ] > With a simple debian/rules target, for instance ‘source’, the conflict about > the source package formats can be made much milder, because it will be the > choice of the maintainer to use or not dpkg-dev,

Source packages: standard formats and interfaces as an alternative to centralisation.

2010-05-27 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear all, binary packages are built from unpacked sources through a simple interface that combines targets of the debian/rules file and environment variables, to build packages whose structure is documented in our Policy. What about applying the same logic for building source packages? This would