hi :) On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 02:25:36PM -0600, David Starner wrote: > If a package source does not come fully unpacked - i.e. it uses a > DBS-like system - debian/rules must include an unpack target, that > unpacks the source code and applies all patches to it. i think this is the wrong approach there should be a standard tool which can cope with dbs packages, preferable this support should be build into dpkg-source. otherwise you would have to run code from the package, just to be able to view the package! not nice (okok, i could have a look at debian/rules first, but that's rather ugly if i have to check all included makefiles just to be able to look up some debian patch) (and yes, i have to trust debian packages anyway, as binary packages are root on my system, but i want to look at third-party source-packages without running code in them) there is a 'dbs' package in debian, doesn't it include such an unpack utility? -- CU, / Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen, Germany Martin Waitz // [Tali on IRCnet] [tali.home.pages.de] _________ ______________/// - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - /// dies ist eine manuell generierte mail, sie beinhaltet // tippfehler und ist auch ohne grossbuchstaben gueltig. / - Wer bereit ist, grundlegende Freiheiten aufzugeben, um sich kurzfristige Sicherheit zu verschaffen, der hat weder Freiheit noch Sicherheit verdient. Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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