Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Because dpkg-source goes out of its way to make sure it doesn't do > anything destructive. IWJ (author of dpkg-source, if I remember > correctly) probably figured out a way to create hostile source and diffs > if dpkg-source was allowed to delete files, and thus it isn't.
I doubt it since the said hostile person could construct the destructive diff by hand. IIRC the reason is to be able to unpack source packages on ancient systems with a primitive patch implementation. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
