Re: Debian for Linux/{non-i386} / source packaging

[Bruce Perens <bruce@Pixar.com>]

mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com said:
> The DELTA file is described by Bruce as containing patch input. I'm 
> thinking it'd be better to have it contain a script to debianize the 
> sources.  The patch input itself (and perhaps multiple patch inputs 
> for the multiple upstream sources) could be contained internally in 
> that file as one or more in "here files".  The user, then, wouldn't 
> need to (mis?)apply the patches manually.

I intended to have the utility that extracted the source package invoke patch
automaticaly with the DELTA file as input. If you need an arbitrarily 
complicated "patch" run, you can have the extraction script do that instead
of having the DELTA component be a script as well. If you want DELTA to be
a no-op, make it empty.

	Bruce




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