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Re: source packages and upstream source

Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>         Some name-ver.tar.gz (where they _do_ exists under that name)
>  files unpack into Name/ some into name/ and yet others into
>  name-ver/. There appears to be little consistency in upstream
>  packaging convention, so it is not a simple matter for us to create a
>  policy handling these cases.

A while back, I wrote a program, "cobble" that:

1) searches the CWD for a (set of) file(s) like .tar.gz, .tar.Z,
   part*xx, Part*xx.gz, &c.
2) extracts that in a subdirectory called "src"
3) if there was only one file (a directory) under src, it mv's it up
   two levels as src2, rmdir's src, and renames src2 to src
4) applies optional patches, divided into internal-only,
   exportable-also, and "from the net" categories
5) runs configure if present, or xmkmf's if there's an Imakefile,
   or just runs make if there's a Makefile or makefile

The relevance in this case, is mostly that it handles the issue of * vs
name/* vs name-ver/*.  The approach is also appropriate for building a
large, top-down compilable source tree.

The thing that freaks most people who see cobble, is that it removes the
source code every time you run it.  :)  This really encourages making a
patch for every modification.

Debian likely doesn't want to switch to cobble - but it might want to
allow its existing tools to be (more) influenced By cobble.

I've put cobble at ftp://autoinst.acs.uci.edu/pub/cobble/cobble.  HTML
doc is at http://nis.acs.uci.edu/~strombrg/cobble.html.