Re: VCS repositories

2018-05-30 Thread Warlich, Christof
Dear Gregor, dear Russ, many thanks for your help, that's even much better than the information I was hoping for :-). Particularly the sources API and dgit are real gems that I would probably not have found myself. Cheers, Chris

Re: VCS repositories

2018-05-29 Thread Warlich, Christof
> I think original poster is unaware of `debcheckout` from > the package `devscripts`. Yes, I wasn't aware of neither debcheckout.nor debsnap. Looks like the devscripts package is a teasure trove of useful scripts, many thanks for that pointer. > > In case of binutils that will not help: > > ...

VCS repositories

2018-05-28 Thread Warlich, Christof
Hi, I'm a bit desperate to find out how the Debian project maintains its patches w.r.t. upstream repositories. Thus, while I can explore the _current_ patches of a package by looking at the "*.debian.tar.gz"-archive after obtaining its sources through "apt-get source ", I'd be rather intereste