On Wed, 04 Jan 2017 at 13:59:26 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 1:30 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > > But I am not sure if a package structure like > > > > mypkg/upstream/* > > mypkg/debian/* > > mypkg/patches/* (?) > > > > would have any *practical* benefits over the current situation > > TBH, I haven't thought much about what an alternative should look like.
We could have a directory containing a tarball, some patches, and some sort of spec for how to build it? I hear some people with brightly-coloured headgear might have tried this particular design :-P Joking aside, the attempts I've seen at managing SRPMs in a version control system have either not tracked upstream source at all (Fedora), or invented a layout that is actually a lot like Debian's but with packaging/ instead of debian/ (Tizen). S