Source packaging - alternatives

1996-06-30 Thread Ian Jackson
I've been reading the discussion ... Firstly, I'm glad to have disposed of the `byte-for-byte original source archive' idea (and that some of the people I thought were advocating this were merely advocating that we should be able to extract the original source files somehow from our source

Re: Source packaging - alternatives

1996-06-30 Thread Rob Browning
Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: are no differences that diff can't handle (deleted files, retargeted links, c). I don't know if retargeted links covers the following situation, but don't forget about dangling symbolic links. The GIMP upstream source contains links to a binaries

Re: Source packaging - alternatives

1996-06-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Sometimes a diff file alone is not enough to change the original sources to the debianized sources, permissions on debian.rules is one that has been noted. I remember interim unofficial version of perl being distributed as shell scripts that performed a few actions