Hi,
>
> The manpage reads for the --debianonly option of dpatch-edit-patch:
> [..] The optional argument is the path to the upstream tarball [..]
>
> - From my understanding, I expected, that I just need to give the path to
> the tarball, excluding the tarball name (I mean, from the changelog
> entry, dpatch-edit-patch should be able to determine the .orig.tar.gz
> name itself). So what is it: A misunderstanding at my side? Then the
> manpage should be slidely adjusted. Or is this option broken?
>
> PS: I would suggest the following:
> - - check if the path is a file or directory
> - - if it is a file, then consider it the upstream tarball
> - - if it is a directory, then expect the .orig.tar.gz inside this
> directory (create the .orig.tar.gz tarball name from debian/changelog)
>
> What is your opinion?
>
Sounds mostly good.
The only problem is that I don't use this feature much, so I don't
really have an opinion on this point. Could you prepare a patch?
regards,
junichi
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