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Re: qmail license

Hi,
 [IMHO, this should be being discussed on debian-devel]
>>"Guy" == Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu> writes:


Guy> So far, I'm going to make it

Guy> 1) allow directories besides debian/ in diffs.  It will make the
Guy> directories itself as some ancient patch versions can't.

Guy> 2) allow the upstream source to unpack into any unique directory
Guy> name. It will rename it to packagename-version.orig.

Guy> 3) refuse to build things that it will later refuse to unpack.

Guy> Anything else important?

	Does anything need to change to allow the working directory to
 be called package-versions.debian?

	Or else how will you handle the working directory in, say, 
 <x>/make-3.75/ being blown away when I unpack the upstream source,
 which *also* unpacks (rightly so) into <x>/make-3.75/ ?

	I think we may need a slightly more leaborate description of
 the algorithm you intend to use for step 2 above, as doing this right
 for the myriad of source package vagaries could be quite involved. (A
 simple solution is to choose a working dir name that would be
 unlikely to be in conflict, and to unpack in a teporary (or scratch)
 directory, and use that (maybe both))

	manoj

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