tags 246918 - patch thanks On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 14:44 +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > this is a very simple and non-intrusive change that I wish to see in > > dpkg-source. I would like to make it read the contents of the future > > .diff.gz file from a user-specified location and not run diff (and other > > The attached patch implements the requested functionality. One has to > set $DIFFSRC to the diff source filename when running dpkg-source. > I dislike the idea of using environment variables to influence the behaviour of software in this way when a perfectly good command-line argument would do. I'm not entirely convinced the wishlist is valid though, you can always unpack and build debian source packages manually. Scott -- Have you ever, ever felt like this? Had strange things happen? Are you going round the twist?
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