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Re: upstream source included in subversion?



Am Montag, den 21.01.2008, 13:23 -0500 schrieb Roberto C. Sánchez:
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 06:43:29PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:

[..]
> > ...and do any of you know how I strip upstream source from a source 
> > package already uploaded?!?
> > 
> I too initially thought as you did.  However, once I was introduced to
> quilt (the group's preferred way of patching packages), I realized that
> having the upstream source in svn made it very easy work with quilt.

dpatch allows for specifying the directory, where the .orig.tar.gz is.
So I can work without storing the source in SVN [1]. Doesn't quilt allow
for something similar?

[1] http://www.wgdd.de/?p=25

Regards, Daniel


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