Bug#250202: Standardizing make target for 'patch' and 'upstream-source'

[David Schmitt <david@schmitt.edv-bus.at>]

On Friday 01 April 2005 02:12, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> I was initially thinking along these lines myself
> <http://www.dpkg.org/NewSourceFormat>, however I'm now starting to lean
> towards not allowing arbitrary shell to just open up a source package;
> it doesn't "feel" safe enough.
>
> I also don't want to break "cd source-version" as the definitive way to
> get to the source afterwards, and am not currently sure how to do that
> with packages containing multiple tarballs.
>
> There's also the issue of how do you clean or put a source package back
> together, when it's got the patches all applied -- how do you know which
> patch any modifications should go into?

Adam Heath claims to have a dbs-ng prototype which does "the right thing".

See http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/04/msg00062.html


Regards, David
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