Bug#250202: Get this over with
* Marco d'Itri:
> On Oct 11, Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
>
>> > This is not important, maintainers just need to add an alias target
>> > to debian/rules. *Way* easier to maintain and use for everybody
>> > involved than writing a natural language description of the
>> > operations involved.
>>
>> For those using Debian in production it's also important to
>> permanently apply security patches to source trees. In some cases,
>> changes to source trees after unpacking are *not* permanent.
> Your point being? I can't see how this is relevant to the issue
> being discussed.
I thought that README.source is intended to help casual packages
maintainers (or people who are forced to do a maintainer's task
because of some emergency). A way to obtain the real source code from
which the package is built is not sufficient. Changes to these
sources might not survive a dpkg-buildpackage run in some cases (a big
oops if your critical but non-testable security fix is silently
discarded).
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