Re: Source packaging - alternatives

[Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@pilgrim.umass.edu>]

Hi,

	Sometimes a diff file alone is not enough to change the
 original sources to the debianized sources, permissions on
 debian.rules is one that has been noted. I remember interim
 "unofficial" version of perl being distributed as shell scripts that
 performed a few actions (deleting/renaming files, etc), unshared to
 the [atch file, and applied the patch.

	Could this be useful? The dsc file could contain the
 information just as Ian proposed, but say
 % ./package.dsc 
 to generate the debian sources (with proper permissions for
 debian.rules) from the orig and diff files automatically.

	manoj
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