On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 05:11:59PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > In theory you can use "dpkg-source --skip-patches -x" and import > everything except the debian dir. Those are the upstream sources, I'm not > sure it's interesting to handle each upstream tarball separately. In fact, > doing so could lead to conflicts since the additional tarballs might > replace a directory that is also in the main tarball. That means the maintainer loses his access to (possibly) overwriten directories (although I don't have an idea how to store the multiple tarballs in VCS, anyways; especially when upstream decides to split up a tarball after a while...). > In practice, there's one exception, the debian tarball can contain > binary files that are installed outside of the debian dir. Those are > necessary listed in debian/source/include_binaries. > > So maybe we should add a new option that skips the extraction of the > debian tarball. "--skip-debianization" would be perfect IMHO (speaking for svn-bp development). Hauke
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