Re: dpkg-source v2

[Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au>]

On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 01:16:32PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> I think my version is simpler. The .dsc for evolution would then look
> like this:
>  98de5a37e7ff94ba30607671176e8a2c 13852125 evolution_1.0.7.orig.tar.gz
>  5baeb94fb934d0bf783ea42117c400be 1954117 evolution:db_3.1.17.orig.tar.gz
>  00fdddef14f104800edbba00e67dabf3 16806 evolution:debian_1.0.7-2.tar.bz2

Erm. Having:

	evolution_1.0.7.orig.tar.gz
	evolution_db_1.0.7.orig.tar.gz
	evolution_1.0.7-2.diff.tar.gz
	evolution_1.0.7-2.dsc

would make more sense. Not being able to work out which files go together
to make up the source package from the filenames alone is kinda sucky.

Allowing something like:

	Native packages:
		<pkg>_<ver>.<arc>
		<pkg>_<sub>_<ver>.<arc>   (0 or more)
		<pkg>_<ver>.dsc

	Patched packages:

		<pkg>_<upstream>.orig.<arc>
		<pkg>_<sub>_<upstream>.orig.<arc>  (0 or more)
		<pkg>_<upstream>-<rev>.<diffarc>

	(<arc> is one of tar.gz, tar.bz2, zip (?)
	 <diffarc> is one of diff.gz, diff.bz2, tar.gz, tar.bz2, zip (?)
	 <sub> is a subcomponent of the source, and follows the same rules as
		package naming)

is probably do-able. Although you could end up with conflicts if your
Debian revision (<rev>) ended with ".orig" -- foo.deb 1.3-4.orig, to
foo.deb 1.3-4-5 would have the Debian patch for 1.3-4.orig be called
"foo_1.3-4.orig.tar.gz" and the 1.3-4 upstream tarball would also be
called that.  So it'd probably be better to expect the Debian stuff to
end in .diff.{gz,bz2,tar.gz,tar.bz2,zip}, giving:

	Patched packages:

		<pkg>_<upstream>.orig.<arc>
		<pkg>_<sub>_<upstream>.orig.<arc>  (0 or more)
		<pkg>_<upstream>-<rev>.diff.{gz|bz2|<arc>}

Hrm. Does it really make sense to put the <sub> name before the version?

	evolution_1.0.7-2.diff.tar.gz
	evolution_1.0.7-2.dsc
	evolution_1.0.7.orig.tar.gz
	evolution_1.0.7_db.orig.tar.gz

..would seem somewhat nicer, and easier to parse, and work with generally.

Cheers,
aj

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