Re: More flexible source format (was Re: gdb is broken?)

[Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org>]

At 12:37 +0100 1998-12-09, J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\) wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 11:13:15 +0100, Roman Hodek wrote:
> > BTW, this again reminds me that I once planned to design a new, more
> > flexible source format for Debian. It also should allow such arch-specific
> > patches. Basically I plan to make non-related changes different patches,
> > to make maintenance easier. The debian subdir also can be packaged
> > separately. There also should be some meta-information, like permissions
> > of files created by the patches (to remove some well-known problems :-),
> > conditions under which patches should be applied (e.g. arch, os), and so
> > on... Is anybody interested in this?
>
> I think a lot of people would love to see this. Red Hat already has a
> multiple-patches source format, which has proven very handy for us (to
> extract specific fixes).

Allegedly Klee's development snapshot of dpkg (in ~klee on master) 
has such a package format, however, that version is broken, and I was 
unable to find evidence of this in the sources.
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