Re: Debian for Linux/{non-i386} / source packaging
On Tue, 31 Oct 1995, David Engel wrote:
>First, I prefer to go with unmodified, upstream source. Second, I
>really mean unmodified, i.e.. the Debianizing script (or whatever) must
>take care of unpacking into subdirectories, if necessary.
I'll go further and say that I think that any approach that does not
include as one of its goals the ability to work with totally virgin source
archives is a total waste of time because it doesn't buy us enough to
justify the work.
So if we start from the assumption that we will have a separate, totally
unmodified source .tar.gz, that means we will have at a minimum two files.
So, what can we have that other file to be?
I would propose that it be a script (humanly readable, though it doesn't
have to be the prettiest thing around) that knows how to create a
directory, unpack the virgin sources into that directory, and then patch
the sources from patches included in its body.
Seems to me that this doesn't have to be particularly hard, so I must be
missing something, right?
Mike.
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