On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 04:03:32PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >>"David" == David Starner <starner@okstate.edu> writes: > David> A suggestion for policy: > David> If a package source does not come fully unpacked - i.e. it uses a > David> DBS-like system - debian/rules must include an unpack target, that > David> unpacks the source code and applies all patches to it. > > Umm. I suggest you talk to the people who are using DBS (and > perhaps also talk to Adam Heath, the author, to include suggestions > in the DBS docs) to implement such a target. > > Policy is not a stick to beat people on the head with. While I agree with you vis a vis Policy, I have no objection to such a thing, speaking as the maintainer of a very large, DBS-using package. -- G. Branden Robinson | Build a fire for a man, and he'll Debian GNU/Linux | be warm for a day. Set a man on branden@debian.org | fire, and he'll be warm for the http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | rest of his life. - Terry Pratchett
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