On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Ben Finney <ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
>> usually you would remember because you'd debdiff and interdiff >> against the .deb and .diff.gz in the archive. > > How will those help me to get information about the package I'm about > to build *before* issuing the commands to build it? As a sponsor, usually I would do stuff like this: dget http://mentors.....foo...-3.dsc apt-get source foo interdiff -z -p1 foo...-1.diff.gz foo...-3.diff.gz | less <notice multiple changelog entries, remember -v... for later> cd foo... less `find debian` <more source package review here> pdebuild + lintian/etc <binary package review here> debsign debrelease barf mail to -mentors You can also replace 'remember -v...' with 'forget to add -v...' :) -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org