Justin Pryzby wrote: >>>>for example), I've put the compressed upstream right in the package. It
> Also, how does this work WRT pristine source requirements? I notice > that coreutils embedded upstream tarball is pristine, but of course > the .orig is not. IMO this isn't a political problem - the user gets the pristine source from the orig.tgz all right. There is - and this hasn't really been discussed in this thread - the same issue that people have with dpatch et al in general: The package building process is more opaque to outsiders needing to work on the package (e.g. security team, NMUers). In september/october there has been a discussion of these disadvantages on planet.d.o. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
