On Sun, 18 May 2008, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Fri, 16 May 2008, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > >> I totally agree that we need to make our changes more visible. In the >> openssl case, the patch in question is inside the .diff.gz and you don't >> notice it in the unpacked source package. I tend to give a look to what's >> in debian/patches/ when I rebuild a package but not to what's in .diff.gz >> only. > > If I inspect an unknown package I always do > > zgrep "^+++ " *.diff.gz | grep -v "/debian/" > > and I wonder whether I should file a bug report against "dpkg-source -x" > to do this by default.
With the 3.0 quilt format, dpkg-source -x will list each patch that it applies (and since the debian directory is stored in a tarball and not in a .diff, it always means _real_ changes contrary to the v1 format where we always see the line "applying ....diff.gz"). Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
