On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 01:42:21PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 01:17:13PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: >> Is there a right way for using the source of a different >> debian-package? > For ocaml, i supply an ocaml-source package for other folk to use it.
Hello, That's the easiest possibility, but it sucks bandwith-wise. - exim4_source-4.12-5 and exim4_source-4.12-8 can be identical (I probably have only changed/debian), nevertheless I'll have to upload it. >> I've checked the archives, but I only found >> http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2001/debian-mentors-200103/msg00253.html > > which is a little bit dated and without really positive outcome. The >> best suggestion was something similar to >> if [ ! -e $TMPDIR/foo.tar.gz ]; then >> pushd $TMPDIR >> apt-get source --tar-only foo >> popd >> fi >> If you're wondering: The package in question would be exim v4 with the >> exiscan patch applied. - It cannot simply be built from the exim4 >> source-package because the patch is released more often than exim >> itself (current-version is already 4.12-24). > Well, why don't you simply do a package with a copy of the exim sources, > and add the patch in the .diff.gz. This way you upload the source just > once, and upload new .diff.gz each time there is a new version of the > patches? But I'd have to reupload all the packages not influenced by the exiscan-patch at all (-base, -daemon-light, -daemon-heavy) just for a new release of the exiscan-patch. Real reason: I don't want the exiscan-patch in the exim4 source package because I won't be using it and don't want to maintain it. It will likely have bugs not influencing exim at all and these bugs shouldn't influence exim's progress to testing. cu andreas
