On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 01:57:05PM +0300, George Danchev wrote: > On Saturday 07 October 2006 13:36, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > --cut-- > > Hello, > > > > [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=388495 > > > [2] http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/i/icmake/icmake_6.30-1.dsc > > > > I see a few things I dislike in the debian directory, such as dpatch > > support removing and a custom target in the rules file. If you need to > > manage upstream updates, a watch file is the debian way, not custom rules. > > Dpatch support was removed since the debian patches from 6.22 package has > been > merged in that upstream release. The optional get-orig-source target supports > hashsum checking, while uscan and watch files don't AFAIK, and it is > mentioned in the debian policy, so it is also a debian way to get the > original source ;-)
If you think uscan can be improved feel free to submit patches. Embedding MD5 sums like you did is not a great idea. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
