On Fri, 27 Nov 2009, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > But the package is unpacked before it can be patched. The patches > themselves are in debian/patches: when they become available, > debian/source/options and debian/source/format are available as > well.
Right, but unpacking should be under control of the unpacker and not under control of the one who crafted the source package. So it's still not a good idea. Furthermore I don't see at all what putting this option in the source package would be used for. If you don't want the patch system, you don't create patches with it but creating patches only to not have them applied at unpack time is non-sense IMO. Cheers, -- Raphaƫl Hertzog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org