Bug#250202: mandate a common name for "patched source" and/or "unpacked source"
On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Bill Allombert wrote:
> Policy mandating a name for a target might make it sound like a good
> idea to implement such a target, which I disagree with.
That can be trivially addressed by couching it in language indicating
that fact.
> I meant "the package should not require the use of any targets" not
> "policy should not require the use of any targets".
That may very well be. However, in the cases where they are required,
or at least desired, I see no reason not to recommend a set of
standard names.
> Yes, but we cannot guess what kind of special targets such packages
> might need.
We can't guess them all, definetly. But in the three cases here,
unpacking, patching, and unpatching, we can at least make a suggestion
of reasonable names to be used.
Don Armstrong
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