Re: Best Packaging Practices, act II
Hi Erich!
You wrote:
> Several different systems / versions of this build-style are floating
> around, with different features... i guess it's called "dpatch"
> The one i've used for the galeon package uses a list file in
> debian/patches where one can specify a certain order for the patches du
> be applied (that definitely is a plus vs. your simple ls!)
The ls sorts alphabetically, so it suffices to call the patches
01_firstpatch.patch, 02_anotherone.patch, etc.
> I like this build style _very_ much, and can't await when we can use
> just two tarballs for building (one upstream, one for the debian/ dir,
> that's all i need) ;)
> It's just a few lines in the debian/rules file.
Indeed. I try to to keep the changes I make to a package, contained to
the debian/ dit. That also makes packaing new upstream packages a lot
easier.
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