On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 11:23:45AM +0000, Loïc Minier wrote: > On Sat, Jan 26, 2008, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > And in taht sense, wig&pen that allow you to put multiple diffs rather > > than a single .diff.gz with your orig tarball is quite enough. > > debian/control is already here for the rest, and we just need some more > > Vcs-* like headers, or some new resource to list the proper Debian > > packages upstreams (maybe in mole ?) since Vcs-* headers in a given > > package cannot be updated if the maintainer changes, and that the Vcs he > > uses changes location. > > Is the above a proposal to include each individual patch / feature as a > separate .diff in the source package? IOW foo.dsc would point to > foo.tgz, foo.debian.diff for the Debian packaging, and patch-1.diff, > patch-2.diff etc.? This doesn't sound very practical for large > patchsets. :-( Not really, it would point to the orig.tar.gz's, a debian.tar.gz that would hold the content of debian/, and a patches.tar.gz that would hold a quilt series in it. Or anything similar, that's just an example. It's very easy to produce the two last tarballs from any $SCM, and it should scale quite well :) -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org
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