On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 11:35:58AM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> I knew I saw something like that once. svn-buildpackage even has code to
> to fetch the tarball from the archive or, when not found, via watch.
Thanks for the code, I did not know that.
Still, duplicating code is always bad. So, if we really want to go
this way, I'd prefer to add support to debcheckout to invoke some kind
of hooks, and have this as a possible hook. How about that?
> darcs-buildpackage does not have the support. And, since the support
> only affects the _retrieving_ of the source, I don’t see much merit in
> using darcs-buildpackage at all. Following the unix philosophy of small
> tools, I’d use
I disagree on this. With svn-buildpackage the debian only layout is
used at build time. You never have upstream code unpacked where you
are, but rather elsewhere. That elsewhere is unpacked upon build.
> Given that there is code in svn-buildpackage, I’d think it’s
> feasible. I’d expect that only those maintainers will use such the
> feature where it actually works :-)
It's feasible, the point is whether the implementation is the right
way to go. Before going that way, I'd rather trigger a discussion on
-devel about that. For instance, what if get-orig-source invokes uscan
itself?
Cheers.
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