On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 11:12:15AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > What I need as someone working on a package for which I'm not the > maintainer is this: > > dpkg-source -x must give me something I can immediately edit and diff > on the resulting tree after I've edited and built it must produce a > sane patch. So debian/rules build must not edit any source files. > > This is the supposedly universal interface for Debian packages, which > the rest of us (ie, people not the package maintainer) are relying on. > It is my opinion that packages where dpkg-source -x doesn't produce > the source that actually gets compiled are in violation of policy.
In every single patch system I've encountered, you can run debian/rules patch and get the patched source. It's only one more command and I consider it universal for all patch systems deployed in Debian. Admittedly, I do few NMU's though, so I could be missing things. But I did investigate a large number of patch systems for use with xorg and they all had this in common. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
