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Bug#250202: Alternate proposal



On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 11:32:17AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> +	  In addition, maintainers should create a target
> +	  <tt>source</tt> to the <prgn>debian/rules</prgn> file. This
> +	  target, if present, should unpack source archives, apply
> +	  patches, generate files, and generally prepare the unpacked
> +	  source package to modification. Running <prgn>debian/rules
> +	  binary</prgn> after <prgn>debian/rules source</prgn>
> +	  <em>must not</em> erase any changes, and it must also not
> +	  fail.

What has happened to the concerns that were mentioned at the beginning
of the discussion to not make many packages instantly buggy?
(Apart from that fact I agree with the proposal, just for the record)

Gruesse,
-- 
Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
www: http://www.djpig.de/



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