Bug#513273: Fw: 6.7.8.3 Changing binary files in diff.gz -- Suggesting GPG
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Simon Paillard wrote:
> http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-best-pkging-practices.en.html#s-changed-binfiles
>
> It suggests uuencoded form for binary files that are shipped with Debian
> source packages' diff.gz file. The footnote 7 gives perl example.
Note that I hope that this problem will entirely go away with the
introduction of the new source package format 3.0 (quilt). It supports
binary files since the debian directory is now stored in a tarball.
Cheers,
--
Raphaël Hertzog
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