Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Le Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 12:19:28PM -0400, Matthias Julius a écrit : >> >> If nothing in the diff.gz touches files outside of debian there is >> actually no need for it to be a diff. It could be debian.tar.gz which >> would be able to preserve file permissions and symlinks. > > I think that it would be interesting. Another thing - more heretic - > to explore is the system used by the fink project. In their case, they > have only one file, with herscripts inside if necessary. Maybe trivial > pacakges (typically those which build well with CDBS) could be shipped > as just a .dsc file...
That would be rather intrusive. The above would only require to unpack an archive instead of applying a patch. The rest of the build system would stay the same. That change should be relatively minor. I don't know what changes (if any) would be required to track the new tar.gz files. Matthias
