Re: Adding debian/rules unpack as a required operation
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 01:21:29AM +0100, Martin Waitz wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 02:25:36PM -0600, David Starner wrote:
> > If a package source does not come fully unpacked - i.e. it uses a
> > DBS-like system - debian/rules must include an unpack target, that
> > unpacks the source code and applies all patches to it.
>
> i think this is the wrong approach
>
> there should be a standard tool which can cope with dbs packages,
> preferable this support should be build into dpkg-source.
One day ...
> there is a 'dbs' package in debian, doesn't it include such
> an unpack utility?
You're assuming that all packages that use various versions of DBS and
of other build-time patching systems have anything to do with the code
in the dbs package, which many of them don't. For a start, there are at
least two major forks of the system known as DBS.
Although I'd oppose this being 'must', I would love to see a documented
optional target in order to promote consistency. Given agreement among
the maintainers of source-patching packages, policy is the right place
to document debian/rules targets.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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