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Re: New, improved dpkg-source script



On Wed, 28 Feb 1996, David Engel wrote:

> [...]
> I agree about not wanting to delay 1.1 any further by having
> developers re-upload their packages.  However, 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.

Hmm ... I think I'm completely missing the point here.  Does this mean 
that the source packages distributed with 1.1 wouldn't compile? :-)  I 
suppose it just means they wouldn't be able to build themselves ... is 
that nearer the mark?

Nikhil.


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