Re: New, improved dpkg-source script

[bruce@Pixar.com (Bruce Perens)]

David:
> Couldn't someone write a new script or modify Ian's, to convert the
> existing .tar.gz and .diff.gz files into the new format?  This could
> then be done batch style on all of the files already on master.debian.org.
> Updating debian.rules to actually to do this automatically could wait.

That would be fine. What I objected to was adding 50 person-tasks to the
critical path for 1.1 . A conversion script run on "master" would be fine,
and we could require all uploads after that point in time to use the new
source format.

	Thanks

	Bruce
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