Re: New, improved dpkg-source script

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

Bruce Perens writes ("Re: New, improved dpkg-source script"):
> 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.

Unfortunately this won't work.  One of the reasons we need a new
format is that our current format doesn't have any way of recreating
the original source in pristine form ...

Ian.