Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Basically, the way to do this is to do the dbs thing, I think. The >> structure of the .tar.gz file would be: >> - All content in the .tar.gz file is in a debian subdirectory as packed. >> - debian/patches contains a quilt series file and set of patches. >> - debian/upstream contains one or more .tar.gz or .tar.bz2 files plus a >> series file that specifies the order of unpack. > > This doesn't work well. Upstream tarballs inside a single .tar.gz > requires reupload of all the upstream sources for every revision. > > (That's also one of the weak point of the VCS based format as implemented > currently) It's inherent to the VCS-based format so far as I can see. Anyway, that's one of the reasons why you'd want to convert to wig&pen instead for a quilt-based package, I think. It's a more efficient representation in some respects. I'm not sure how much of a problem this really is. > The plugin architecture shouldn't assume a single tarball, it should > receive as input the list of files contained in the .dsc and it should > be able to use every file. This should be easy to do once the code in > dpkg-source is factored out. Yes, that would be nice. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]