Re: Task list for a policy release
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 11:11:14PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> 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
> >
> > Bleh. This is kind of a mess.
> >
> > 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'.
Which would mean you'd have the patches twice in your .diff.gz file,
since dpkg-buildpackage runs the clean rule before dpkg-source'ing.
That is a pretty bad idea.
Mike
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