On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 12:11:42PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 11:27:27AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > Wouldn't it be a good idea to add two targets to the debian/rules file,
> > say, "unpacked" and "patched" or something[1], which would unpack the
> > source, resp. patch it using the provided patches? These targets would
> > be mandatory if an unpacked source package would not provide an unpacked
> > source tree, and optional otherwise.
>
> I would prefer if they do not require to run such target in the first
> place. There is no need for it, you can just ship the patches preapplied
> (with dpatch, it is just a matter of making clean depend of patch
> instead of unpatch).
While, in principle, I have nothing against this, it would make a huge
number of packages InstaBuggy, which clearly is not the way to go.
> I heard that doogie is developing a new release of dbs that would not
> require to run such target anymore.
>
> Also all my packages with non-trivial source process include a file
> ./README.source that explain how source should be handled.
Hm. That sounds like a good idea, too.
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