Re: Debian source code search engine

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Peter De Wachter <pdewacht@gmail.com> writes:

> Op Mon, 25 May 2009 03:36:28 +0100
> schreef Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>:
>
>> Cool - that looks really useful.  However, it looks like you're just
>> running "dpkg-source -x" to unpack packages.  This misses any Debian
>> changes made using a patch system.  Unfortunately there is no standard
>> mechanism to apply patches in version 1 source patches, but it should
>> be easy enough to support the standard patch queue formats.
>
> I know, it's not ideal. Unfortunately, running "debian/rules patch" is
> going to be difficult, as the site runs on a FreeBSD system :) [1][2]
> (It's a friend's system that has lots of spare cpu cycles and bandwidth
> available.)

Hopefully packages with patch systems will be mostly replaced with 3.0
(quilt) format once DAK allows them. With 3.0 (quilt) formar
dpkg-source -x already applies all patches and that is what we want.

That just leaves packages with complicated patch systems and/or
conditional patches.

MfG
        Goswin