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Re: source packages and upstream source

Hi,

	Well, since traceability is deemed important, maybe it is time
 to modify dpkg-source to look at a package specific config file, say,
 debian/Sources, which, if it exists, will unpack the original source
 file, whatever it is named, to an intermediate ../name-ver/, so that
 diffs can be generated. The original filename is also given so that
 we may include the md5sum in the dsc file.

	Or else, remove dpkg-source, and we could revert to just the
 debian/rules file, and the source and diff targets could document the
 changes made to the original files.

	In any cse, whatever is decided, the policy should provide for
 the case of packages like angband, whose upstream sources could be
 called benfixed380.tar.gz or win32fixes.tar.gz (the path on the ftp
 archive tells you what you are getting), and which unpacks into the
 current directory, or may unpack into Ang380, or ang380, or
 angband-380, or something.

	I do not think this is trivial. But I am getting streched kind
 of thin, and the fact that I am involved in no less than three
 discussions where I seem to be the lone voice against the rest of the
 pack, may mean that my technical judgement has gone awry. 

	manoj
 crying alone in the darkness
-- 
 "Democracy is also a form of worship.  It is the worship of Jackals
 by Jackasses." Mencken
Manoj Srivastava               <url:mailto:srivasta@acm.org>
Mobile, Alabama USA            <url:http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/>