Arno Töll writes ("Re: Lintian ERROR saying dpatch is obsolete"): > On the other hand, if dpkg would support a rules target to be executed > before applying patches, that would be a great improvement. Or, > alternatively most patches-which-are-scripts could be avoided if quilt > had better support for removing/copying/renaming files.
It's a fundamental problem with this approach which cannot be solved, I'm afraid. We want to be able to safely inspect a source package. That means that unpacking it should not execute part of it. Ian. -- 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/20179.33945.377101.746...@chiark.greenend.org.uk