This one time, at band camp, Bill Allombert said: > On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 10:13:49PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes: > > #250202: [PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with > > non-trivial source > > > > I don't like the last wording proposal in that it advocates strongly > > against using quilt or dpatch, which as near as I can tell from other > > Debian mailing list discussion and packaging teams are widely considered > > best practices inside Debian even though they don't immediately give you > > editable source. > > It does not advocate against quilt/dpatch: you can use quilt or dpatch > and provide editable source. It is just a matter of having clean depend > on 'patch' instead of 'unpatch'. Um, no. You've either got your targets backwards or you're seriously confused. Working on an unpacked and patched tarball without taking the patch system into account just asks for trouble, and buys you very little gain. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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