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Re: upstream source included in subversion?



On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 02:14:31AM +0100, Daniel Leidert wrote:
> 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?
> 
I'm not sure.  I am still new to quilt, but as far as I can tell, it is
intended to be used by editing the upstream sources directly.

Regards,

-Roberto

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Roberto C. Sánchez
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