Hi,
>>"Dale" == Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Dale> On 7 May 1998, Falk Hueffner wrote:

Dale> Whithout meaning to sound too negative, I want to caution
Dale> against such patch and fill design. Ian J. worked very hard (and
Dale> was very successful in my opinion) to design the current source
Dale> package format to manage the various problems of absorbing and
Dale> using upstream sources. We should be careful to craft any
Dale> "improvements" to that format in a consistant and smooth
Dale> fashion.

        One of the co-maintainers of dpkg (Klee) has made an
 experimental dpkg [not available widely, or outside the CVS
 tree]). It has support for multiple upstream tar balls, multiple
 patches to be applied in sequence using a custon unpack script (in
 case one needs to move things around between pathces or whatever); it
 has unpack-depends, and a separate build-depends. (It has other stuff
 too, it is just that these points stuck in my memory).

Dale> That said, I am strongly in favor of a source dependency
Dale> scheme. It just needs to be workable.

        I think this shall be workable. In fact, I think it is
 working, at least for the author (I do not have access ot it
 either). I would advocate patience. It is not as if we could change
 the souce format in the middle of a freeze anyway.

        manoj

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