Hello Debian policy, I believe we must be able to do three things with packages: 1) Upload a new Debian revision without re-uploading the upstream tarball 2) Download only the Debian-specific patches. 3) Have a way to (try to) apply the Debian-specific patches to a new upstream version.
Failing 1-2 cause an unnecessary bandwidth usage. Failing 3 defeat the whole purpose of debian patches. If you use a patch system, there is nothing that prevent you to ship the debian directory as the Debian diff. Lot of packages do that. My personal opinion is that openmotif should be fixed to do that [1]. You just need to create a directory openmotif-xxx with the real upstream tarball in it, 'tar zcf openmotif_xxx.orig.tar.gz openmotif-xxx' and copy the debian dir in it. Now dpkg-source -b will make the debian diff. This will not change your patch system, but this will satisfy point 1-3 above. Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1] Wait for a new upstream version else you will have versions problem.
