Re: Adding debian/rules unpack as a required operation
>>"Branden" == Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> writes:
Branden> 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.
Branden> While I agree with you vis a vis Policy, I have no objection
Branden> to such a thing, speaking as the maintainer of a very large,
Branden> DBS-using package.
And I would say the proposers would be enchanted by your
stance. Now, if we could only prevail upon the dbs author to include
a note exhorting the inclusion of such a target in the rules file,
and perhaps insert such a codicil in the developers reference, yet
another good-practice-but-not-good-policy gem would have been
recorded in the appropriate place and all shall be well in the
world.
manoj
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