Re: Upstream debian/ directory
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 10:32:38AM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> > They don't need to go looking in "some back-alley url" for *source*
> > packages. Just point apt's deb-src-entries to sid and do apt-get
> > source.
>
> Bzzt. Once again, many sid packages don't build on potato without a lot
> of work. The same will likely be true of any future stable release.
> (Judging from history.)
Indeed, I spent quite a bit of time getting sendmail to be able to build
on woody and potato (probably even slink) - woundup using autoconf to
set things like DH_COMPAT and doc_dir (/usr{,/share}/doc), etc.
Most of that could be extracted and we could create a tool to handle
most of the problems, but I'm not sure if it really worth the trouble.
--
Rick Nelson
At some point, bits have to go into packets and routers need to make
decisions on them. Changes at that level is what I want to hear about, not
strategic company relationships.
-- John Carmack
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