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Re: Interesting dpkg issue, plus thoughts...

> The number of packages that can't be re-built from
> their source constituents, using 'dpkg-source -b', appear to be
> increasing.

I believe this is because dpkg-source -b does appear to do only very
minimal sanity checking (it will let you get away with setuid files in
the source tree, extra directories, etc), and thus allow maintainers
to build source packages, that subsequently cannot be extracted by
dpkg-source -x, as that suddenly does do the checking.

I'd very much be in favour of changing this behaviour, and do the checking
before the source package is built, so that maintainers will notice the
errors they make, not the people that (weeks, mounts later) try to 
build their source package.


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joost witteveen, joostje@debian.org
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