Andreas Tille wrote: > If you ask me personally the situation with zillions of competing > VSC systems is even worse than the hand full of tools to build > Debian packages. I personally refuse to switch VCS every six month > because there is a newer and even better one if you trust the one > or other coworker. The competing vcs situation has its problems, but no matter what vcs is used for a package, you can check out the source to the package using apt-get source. This allows examination and modification of the source to any package, without needing to know the vcs. Unless what you get when you run apt-get source is *not* the source that is in the end used to build the package, which is instead squirrled away in some arbitrary patch format somewhere under debian/. In this case, unlike in the vcs case, you have to figure out an arbitrary other tool to get the source. The key difference, as I mentioned in my blog post is that using a vcs does not add vcs-specific cruft (aside from .ignore files and the like) to the debian source package. Using a patch system does add patch-system specific cruft. -- see shy jo
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