El día 29 nov 2002, Jon Kent escribía:
> Hi,
>
> apt-src, good start, really like the fact that it
> figures out dependancies and creates .deb file once
> complete and is fairly easy to use.
>
> However, there are some things I would like to see
> added at some point if possible:
>
> 1) Option to compile dependances as opposed to
> automatically downloading the dependant packages.
>
> 2) Option to add additional compile flags to gcc.
>
> 3) Option not to create a .deb file. I wouldn't want
> this but some people might.
Do you mean calling directly dpkg?
> 4) With depandancies it would be nice to be told what
> must be installed and what depandancies are optional.
Build-Dependecies are always mandatory.
>
> 5) Not sure it this is possible, but maybe downloading
> source directly from author's site??
As a package mantainer you're encouraged to void makig changes to the
upstream sources, but sometimes that has to be done. Some of them
could be avoided with dpkg-source v2, but others are needed (for
example when files are removed because it doesn't follow DFSG).
The other problem I see with this is that you lose this way the
benefit of having a bunch of mirrors near you. And (if some day)
packages are signed and checked in download time, you couldn't do that
either.
--
Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
jsogo@debian.org
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