Hi, On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Brendan O'Dea wrote: > On 9/22/07, Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 08:33:05PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > A good opportunity to change the default behaviour of dpkg-source would > > be the addition of wig&pen build support, BTW ;) > > The problem with generating W&P format is that you need to provide > more information about how the package is constructed than is given to > an invocation of "dpkg-source -b" which has only the .orig dir or > .orig.tar.gz and the current dir. Given those basic input, the most > sensible output is v1.0 format.
Up to now yes, but we could define debian/source (or new headers in debian/control) to contain that supplementary information. BTW, do you have pointers summing up everything what's already defined concerning W&P ? > So, while dpkg-source needs to be able to parse W&P format, the task > of creating it should fall to tools better suited to the job: think > git-buildpackage and other such tools which should have knowledge of a > discrete set of patches/changesets. I'm not sure I like this idea... I'd rather have those tools generate the debian/source file (or more generally interface with a dpkg API to define how the package should be built). Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Premier livre français sur Debian GNU/Linux : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/
