Joey Hess writes: > With this scheme, you arn't running a shell script when you unpack the > package. You can figure out how to look at the tar file or shar archive or > whatever format the upstream source is kept in, without running any special > shell script. The only difference between this and how dpkg-source operates > now is that the actual unpacking of the upstream tarball/whatever (NOT the > debian source package) and applying of the patches is pushed back into > debian/rules, where it can be handled by a shell script. But you need not > run this shell script until you decide to build the package -- which makes > it just as safe as things stand now.
I'm not su sure: it seems you will still have to execute something to just *browse* to sources. Am I wrong ? -- Yann Dirson e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://monge.univ-mlv.fr/~dirson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .