Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> writes: ... >> "The source" is what you get after steps 1 and 2. > > Why is "The source" what you get after dpkg applied patches, > but before debian/rules applied patches? I agree with Sean's point about it being a matter of definition relating to when we invoke debian/rules, but for an alternative justification one might look at this: For the Debian Maintainer, what is the preferred form of modification? It could be the source before the patches are applied (especially if they're working on a patch to be sent upstream), but really, chances are that it's actually the state of the source after the Debian patches are applied. It is almost certainly _not_ the state that source might get transformed into at some point during the build process. It is also almost certainly not the alternative version of the source that results from applying a patch series that only gets applied if they unpack the source on a different vendor's OS. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/ http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg, GERMANY
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