On Jul 13, 2010, at 04:20 PM, Elliot Murphy wrote: >On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Barry Warsaw <[email protected]> wro >> but it seems to have some advantages for the way I work. > >This is cool, thanks for 'splaining.
Thanks to you too. It's great to get another perspective on things. >Yes, and I'm not supposed to directly edit any of the source outside >of debian/, which is why the layout used by svn-buildpackage with only >debian/ in VCS resonates with me. Having said that, the full extracted >source is incredibly useful when I'm debugging - it's nice to be able >to diff a given source file between different package versions which >sometimes don't line up in a meaningful way with upstream VCS (because >they can be patched in the debian package). This leads to my last comment. While you're not *supposed* to touch anything outside of debian/, I think that if there were nice tools to convert back and forth from dvcs-lingo to patch-system-lingo, we'd have an even more powerful development system. -Barry
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