> 'J.H.M.Dassen wrote:' > >Bruce wrote: > >> Also, we should think about source packaging again. We are welcome to take > >> anything we want from RPM source packaging, if that would help. > > > >RPM has the advantage that it include _pristine_ source (identical > >(cmp or md5sum-wise) to the upstream sources, which are patched during > >the build process. IMO this is what we should work towards to. > > These are a venerable goals. But I like that the Debian source packages > can be untarred by anyone without dpkg and/or rpm installed.
Yes, this is very useful (and would even be more so if the source is pristine). > And if we > were to force use of dpkg for installing the source code, I'd like more > freedom over which directory/partition the source ends up in than rpm > allows. Of course. > Anyway those are the two advantages of Debian's current source > packaging that I hope we don't abandon. There has been some discussion earlier on about pristine source, and how to debianize it; you may want to check out the following: - "1.0 issues: Packaging (esp. source)" thread in October 1995: Start: http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9510/msg00460.html - "Debian for Linux/{non-i386} / source packaging" thread in September 1995: Start: http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9509/msg00159.html Greetings, Ray -- POPULATION EXPLOSION Unique in human experience, an event which happened yesterday but which everyone swears won't happen until tomorrow. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
