On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 06:14:41PM +0300, George Danchev wrote: > A possible problem could arise when users of your source package decide to > exemine the source code and call fakeroot debian/rules patch, but there is > still modification left (no matter how innocent it is) to be done against the > C code during the package build time. This is not very consistent behaviour > unless s/he realizes to exemine your rules file more closely and issue the > sed line themselves. Can you think of a solution where your > command-option.patch and sed modification could be applied by the patch > target ? It is possible, and consider it a wishlist. OTOH I would be fine if > someone upload it the way it is.
This makes sense, I will take a look shortly to see if I can combine these. > You are correct, I forgot about that. I believe it would be best to discuss > with upstream to provide any decent versioning scheme, which would let you > avoid constructing upstream version from the debian version, not that it is > bad, it is just not optimal imho ;-) Of course, upstream has responded to my emails now and although he seems a little reluctant to accept my patch, there is still hope yet. -- Noah Slater, http://bytesexual.org/nslater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
