Bug#728200: debian-policy: force build tools to ensure source trees are build-ready

2013-11-04 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 08:17:39AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > > To avoid unexpected changes, we changed this a long time ago (dpkg 1.16.1) > when we introduced "dpkg-source --commit" to actually record the changes > in a new patch. > > Maybe the whole processe should be documented as: > 1

Bug#728200: debian-policy: force build tools to ensure source trees are build-ready

2013-11-04 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 02:46:17PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Mon, 04 Nov 2013, Bill Allombert wrote: > > Such policy change should have been proposed before --commit was > > implemented. > > dpkg is supposed to follow policy not the other way round. > > No, the policy doesn't dictate eve

Bug#728200: debian-policy: force build tools to ensure source trees are build-ready

2013-11-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 04 Nov 2013, Bill Allombert wrote: > Such policy change should have been proposed before --commit was implemented. > dpkg is supposed to follow policy not the other way round. No, the policy doesn't dictate everything top-down. Large part of it are built on top of existing practices that i

Bug#728200: debian-policy: force build tools to ensure source trees are build-ready

2013-11-04 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 08:17:39AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Maybe the whole processe should be documented as: > 1/ dpkg-source -x > 2/ do the changes > 3/ dpkg-source --commit > 4/ dpkg-buildpackage > > > With the removal of the parenthetical, this looks good to me. Seconded. > > With the