Bug#610298: phasing out tar-in-tar in source packages
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 12:38:53AM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote:
> Nothing technically; maybe you overlooked my implicit point that
> replacing a huge PITA (tar-in-tar plus home-grown building scripts)
> with a lesser PITA (unpacked tarballs plus an evolving build system
> that still won't overcome the fundamental problems of bundles)
> doesn't look like a huge benefit to me :)
Ah, OK, I absolutely concur with that :)
Still, it won't be devoid of benefits: there will be an *uniform* way to
"ensure" sources are unpacked and ready to be processed as sources
(e.g. to analyze code automatically, index it for source.d.o, etc.).
Cheers.
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