Re: RFC: New source packaging format
> We already do, when you run dpkg-source --build, it makes a .orig.tar.gz
> file, a .diff.gz file, and a .dsc file.
Actually (though I admit hello-source.deb is a cool hack, it's still a
hack -- and debian has mostly gained it's superiority from getting the
*details* right; that's *why* dpkg is better than rpm...) short term
would would probably help the most for those of us doing "piggy-back"
packages, is a way for dpkg-source to handle *multiple* trees in one
package... ie. if I build prc-tools, I'd have prc-tools.orig.tar.gz,
prc-tools.diff.gz, gcc.orig.tar.gz, gcc.diff.gz, and a single
prc-tools.dsc. I can then save *hours* on the upload by manually
verifying that the md5sum of my gcc.orig.tar.gz matches the one on
master, and then uploading the rest (ie. stuff a single "u" line in
the prc-tools_i386.upload file, and dupload does it right
automatically...) Hmm, could even do that automatically given a
mirror.
This would require some conniving on the part of Guy Maor's installer
scripts (to permit the announcement to reference stuff in the tree,
and to reference count tarfiles so that they didn't get deleted
prematurely.) It would fit cleanly into the existing framework, though.
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