On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > - create directories that do not exist yet (patch will not do that for > > you AFAIK or at least that's the assumption that the current codebase > > made, it might have changed since this part of the code has been written) > > According to the man page, and to tests I did, it does
So there's room for code removal, cool. Any hint since when this is the case? > > - have a listing of all modified files in order to harmonize their > > timestamp afterwards (required to avoid unwanted rebuilding when > > patching auto-generated files and their source file) > > Can't you get that using lsdiff from patchutils ? Probably but then I indirectly add patchutils to build-essential because dpkg-dev needs to depend on it. I have tried to avoid many new dependencies when refactoring the code. Otherwise I could have probably used many CPAN modules that deal with this and much more. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
