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Re: Integration of debian/ scripts in packages



El Mar 12 Jun 2001 19:29, Colin Watson escribió:
> Gergely Nagy <8@free.bsd.hu> wrote:
> >Thus spoke David Martinez CSIC RedIRIS <david.martinez@rediris.es> on
> >
> >2001-06-08 16:29:55:
> >> 	BTW, please, could (you or someone else) point me to any Debian package
> >> which make that in a clear way? Or is there any standard way to maintain
> >> a separate structure for debianizing-patches and source-patches?
> >
> >Have a look at openldap2 or lpe (both from sid). They both patch the
> >original sources at build time, but in a bit different way.
>
> And I always found that style of packaging almost impossible to
> understand, certainly when I just wanted to download the package, unpack
> it, make a couple of changes, and rebuild. (Yes, I *know* it's very easy
> if you know how, and I know that it's easy for maintainers to handle,
> but the point remains.)
>
> I'm very glad to hear that work's being done on dpkg-source that should
> (if I understand it correctly) obsolete this hack.

	That will be in an unknown amount of time. Don't hold your breath (quoting 
Wichert). :-(


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