Re: RFS: lockrun
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 06:14:41PM +0300, George Danchev wrote:
> A possible problem could arise when users of your source package decide to
> exemine the source code and call fakeroot debian/rules patch, but there is
> still modification left (no matter how innocent it is) to be done against the
> C code during the package build time. This is not very consistent behaviour
> unless s/he realizes to exemine your rules file more closely and issue the
> sed line themselves. Can you think of a solution where your
> command-option.patch and sed modification could be applied by the patch
> target ? It is possible, and consider it a wishlist. OTOH I would be fine if
> someone upload it the way it is.
This makes sense, I will take a look shortly to see if I can combine these.
> You are correct, I forgot about that. I believe it would be best to discuss
> with upstream to provide any decent versioning scheme, which would let you
> avoid constructing upstream version from the debian version, not that it is
> bad, it is just not optimal imho ;-)
Of course, upstream has responded to my emails now and although he seems a
little reluctant to accept my patch, there is still hope yet.
--
Noah Slater, http://bytesexual.org/nslater
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