Ben Collins wrote: > How about this. By default the system can do the standard diff like it > does not (excluding the debian/) and place the resulting diff in > debian/patches/debian.diff, then create the .debian.tar.gz of the debian/ > directory. Then allow for expansion above and beyond that. We get a > .tar.gz of the debian directory, the same ease of diffing, plus the added > functionality that some of the more advanced packages require.
Something like this sounds ok, except Wichert's objections about packages with an upstream debian directory still come into play and I still think special cases to hack around that are a bad idea. Hmm. -- see shy jo
