On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 12:51:15PM +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: > On 2019/04/08 12:37, Ondřej Surý wrote: > > Indeed. I can see why Mo would want to put it in one file, but the > Debian package format can work just fine if you work from git > repositories as you suggest, plus if it looks like a more or less usual > debian source package, then it's a smaller leap to turn it into a real > package that can graduate into making its way into Debian.
There is really shockingly small overhead for the single-file format. At the mean time, converting things between the debian-folder and single-file formats is really quick, smooth and easy with fold[1] and unfold[2]. The only problem there is the conversion will fail if binary blobs exist (not supported yet). [1] https://github.com/dupr/duprkit/blob/master/bin/fold #!/bin/sh for file in $(find $1 -type f | sort); do echo "^ $file" cat $file done [2] https://github.com/dupr/duprkit/blob/master/bin/unfold
