Re: php-memcached upload to stable-proposed-updates

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

On 14.03.2012 09:18, Sergey B Kirpichev wrote:
> What if I change debian/rules to reinvent the wheel: patching with 
> sed
> would be ok for release team?
>
> Direct modification of the upstream tarball seems to be overkill for
> this task.  Then, it's better to keep things as is.  I don't want to
> convert the package for stable to unmaintanable mess.

I wasn't suggesting modifying the upstream tarball.

What I was suggesting was: start from an unpacked copy of the source 
package (e.g. after "dpkg-source -x"); modify the affected source files; 
rebuild the package.  The changes will end up in the .diff.gz.

As an example, see 
http://release.debian.org/proposed-updates/stable_diffs/pyspf_2.0.5-2+squeeze1.debdiff 
, which is the result of comparing two versions of the package where 
the new version was created by modifying the source files.

Regards,

Adam