Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

[Michael Banck <mbanck@gmx.net>]

On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 12:48:18PM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> Maybe we should advertise:
> 
> apt-get source foobar
> apt-get build-dep foobar
> cd foobar-x.y.z
> <tweak foobar-x.y.z directory as wished>
> debuild binary

Or just apt-src:

Description: manage Debian source packages
 apt-src is a command line interface for downloading, installing, upgrading,
 and tracking Debian source packages. It makes source package management
 feel a lot like using apt to manage binary packages, and is being used as
 a testbed to work on adding source dependencies to Debian.
 .
 It can be run as a normal user, or as root. If you want a convenient way to
 track updates to packages while preserving your local modifications, this is
 a way to do that.

I didn't use it myself already, but the description looks promising.

Michael