Bug#250202: "debian/README.source" file for packages with non-trivial source
On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 10:54:06PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Accordingly, I think moving forward with specifying a README.source file
> that explains the above three or four points is something we can reach
> consensus on. I'm not as sure about standardizing a target for 1 (setup,
> unpack, and patch are all currently in use), but I suppose that we could
> standardize on patched. This does raise insta-buggy issues since existing
> packages don't provide that target.
This is only a mild objection (I think this is too valuable a change for
me to want to stand in its way), but I am curious why you picked a
target name which AFAIK isn't used by more than a handful of existing
packages, rather than one of the ones which are common? In the latter
case, at least we'd have a head-start on implementation.
(If patched is in use by one of the major patch systems today and I just
forgot about it, please let me know.)
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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