Re: 1.2 source archive and packaging issues
'J.H.M.Dassen wrote:'
>
>Bruce wrote:
>> Also, we should think about source packaging again. We are welcome to take
>> anything we want from RPM source packaging, if that would help.
>
>RPM has the advantage that it include _pristine_ source (identical
>(cmp or md5sum-wise) to the upstream sources, which are patched during
>the build process. IMO this is what we should work towards to.
These are a venerable goals. But I like that the Debian source packages
can be untarred by anyone without dpkg and/or rpm installed. And if we
were to force use of dpkg for installing the source code, I'd like more
freedom over which directory/partition the source ends up in than rpm
allows. Anyway those are the two advantages of Debian's current source
packaging that I hope we don't abandon.
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