On 2 November 2005 09:13, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Hi, > > > I'm working on some big changes for the new upstream of the erlang > > packages. The biggest change is that the package is now fully using > > dpatch, *but*, basing myself on some other package I've seen (coreutils > > for example), I've put the compressed upstream right in the package. It > > is extracted using a dpatch scriptlet. > > > > Is it okay to do that, for one thing? > > Out of interest, I would be interested in the advantages of having a > tarball like that. oh, and it totally helps to keep _all_ changes in check. If I change anything outside dpatch-edit-patch, it'll be gone at the next cleaning. It's a bit of a hassle but since I always feared that a change I've made to the upstream source could end up silently in the diff and break the build on some platforms, I think it's a good thing to force myself to go through dpatch.
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