Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.10.25 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/bin/dpkg-source
Hi, please consider adding a possibility to tell dpkg-source where to unpack the package. Currently, dpkg-source insists on choosing the directory name itself, which is bad if you want to unpack a source already unpacked and modified for comparision purposes. Additionally, it might be desireable to have a script _know_ where a source package is being unpacked without sedding the .dsc file and/or parsing dpkg-source's standard output. I think that simply modifying dpkg-source's semantics so that dpkg-source -x .dscfile targetdir would unpack into targetdir won't break any backwards compatibility. Optionally, if targetdir is specified and already exists, dpkg-source should refuse to do the unpack and return an error. Greetings Marc -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8.1-zgserver Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages dpkg-dev depends on: ii binutils 2.15-4 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii cpio 2.5-1.1 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar ii make 3.80-9 The GNU version of the "make" util ii patch 2.5.9-2 Apply a diff file to an original ii perl [perl5] 5.8.4-4 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii perl-modules 5.8.4-4 Core Perl modules -- no debconf information
