hi :) On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 02:25:36PM -0600, David Starner wrote: > If a package source does not come fully unpacked - i.e. it uses a > DBS-like system - debian/rules must include an unpack target, that > unpacks the source code and applies all patches to it. i think this is the wrong approach
there should be a standard tool which can cope with dbs packages,
preferable this support should be build into dpkg-source.
otherwise you would have to run code from the package,
just to be able to view the package! not nice
(okok, i could have a look at debian/rules first, but that's
rather ugly if i have to check all included makefiles just
to be able to look up some debian patch)
(and yes, i have to trust debian packages anyway, as binary packages
are root on my system, but i want to look at third-party
source-packages without running code in them)
there is a 'dbs' package in debian, doesn't it include such
an unpack utility?
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