On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Michael Hanke <m...@debian.org> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 12:52:53PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 11:17:44AM +0100, Michael Hanke wrote: >> > >> > Not exactly the same thing, but for backporting for various releases we >> > (NeuroDebian) quite often have to adjust the Debian packaging itself, >> > but still want to have everything stored in a single source package. >> > And we do store these patches in debian/patches. However, they are not >> > applied at build-time. Instead we have a backporting script that >> > generates a new source package with the changes applied (using dedicated >> > per-release series files). I submitted that script as a potential >> > addition to the devscripts package some time ago. >> >> Was you aware about dpkg-vendor at the time of writing this script? > > Yes, but AFAIK it was neither available in the Debian stable release at > that time, nor in the respective Ubuntu LTS -- which are our primary > backporting targets.
You know, such things tend to change. FYI, dpkg-vendor is included in both lucid and squeeze. -- regards, Reinhard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caj0cceyd7jt8yahbdj-ezfjyqxpraz5x3zwztyf87kzgnj-...@mail.gmail.com
