Hi. I just wanted to say a few things about this topic, even though the bug has been inactive for a while.
I notice two things: Bill (forgive me if I got the name wrong, I didn't re-check before writing this mail) wants sources to be unpacked by dpkg-source -x in a way that patches (like those from dpatch) are already applied. However: There is a problem with the approach he suggested: If I were to list the "patch" target instead of the "unpatch" target as a dependency of the "clean" target, the dpatch-patches would end up twice inside the .diff.gz: Once in debian/patches and once already applied (and in addition, there would be the tracking data dpatch puts in debian/patched). Quite the contrary of the cleanup-effect wanted by using dpatch in the first place. On the other hand, I can understand why people would like to immediately see the final, fully patched source tree when they extracted them with dpkg-source -x, without the need to install anything besides dpkg-source. But, seeing all the pro's and con's in this bug's log, I would prefer (as has been suggested) some change to the policy, requiring (or at least strongly suggesting: should-style rules) suitable documentation of how to get to the fully unpackged and fully packed source with minimal additional software. And some documentation how to get own changes to get built into the package (not overwritten by debian/rules clean). regards, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
