Re: RFS: mecab-naist-jdic

[Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>]

At Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:28:30 +0900,
Hideki Yamane wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:48:47 +0900
> Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp> wrote:
> > > > It's less easy to maintain patches.
> > > > How do I patch a file inside that tarball?
> > > 
> > >  Okay, it's not easy to maintain patches. Yes.
> > >  But upstream is quite friendly for us, Debian, and patches will be
> > >  include at next release time. So we does not maintain so many patches
> > >  for this package.
> > 
> > You're not answering my question properly.
> 
>  But it's easy for "clean" target.
>  What is the best way to deal with changes "autogen.sh" or "autoreconf -i" 
>  made? Could you tell me that, please?

You can read a lot of source packages which have that.  They clean
files in clean: target.


If you are going to do something nonstandard, please make
README.source with how to use your source package, as documented in
policy.



4.14. Source package handling: `debian/README.source'
-----------------------------------------------------

     If running `dpkg-source -x' on a source package doesn't produce the
     source of the package, ready for editing, and allow one to make
     changes and run `dpkg-buildpackage' to produce a modified package
     without taking any additional steps, creating a `debian/README.source'
     documentation file is recommended.  This file should explain how to do
     all of the following:



regards,
	junichi
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