On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 15:12 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 12:43:45PM +0100, Gergely Nagy wrote: > > The only concern I have is the file to flag debian-only status. It might > > be more useful if it would be debian/patches/00dpep-options (or > > something similar), where one could tweak a selected set of > > dpatch-edit-patch options. > > If the presence of that file doesn't confuse other programs from the > dpatch suite, it is of course the best option.
It shouldn't. If it does, the tool which got confused needs to be fixed. > > Not instructions on how to find the > > orig.tar.gz though - that's a job of the origtargz finder script, and > > debian/watch should be good enough for that. If not, then I think that > > whoever is building the package should know how to get ahold of the > > tarball and place it in a place where it can be found. > > When we have a config file, that file should have an option to > directly point the origtargz finder to the direct path. I am currently > debating with the svn-buildpackage maintainer to have a user-specific > config file in the home directory containing a list of package names > and locations for .orig.tar.gz files. Maybe dpep could support that > file as well. I do NOT want to have direct, local paths in the file. That will break dpatch-edit-patch the first time someone has a different directory setup. Say, the file has ORIGTARGZ_LOCATION="/home/jrandomdeveloper/origs/foo_1.0.orig.tar.gz"; this will break as soon as someone else than jrandomdeveloper wants to use dpatch-edit-patch. If it is only a hint, and other locations are searched as well, then I do not thing it is worth the effort at all. For the same reason I do not want dpep to support svn-buildpackage's configfile (if there will be such a thing): that is not our territory. Instead of parsing that file, a hook that copies or symlinks the orig.tar.gz to a location where dpep can find it would be MUCH better (a hook in svn-buildpackage, that is). With cvs-buildpackage, one can do that, works fine, and does not need hacks in dpep. (And that is why I consider backuping out the .svn/deb-layout thing too, now that I thought some more about the issue) -- Gergely Nagy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
