Re: Documentation of original source tarballs

[Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>]

On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 09:18:15PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote:
> > If we're going to be explicit about defining the handling of
> > orig.tar.gz, and when native and non-native source packging should be
> > used, we should also note that sometimes it is necessary to use a
> > debian-native packaging, due to a defficiencies in dpkg-source, diff,
> > and patch not being able to handle modified or new binary files.
> 
> see dpatch or dbs.

Unless I'm mutch mistaken, both dpatch and dbs do not support modified
or new binary files.

					- Ted