Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 08:08:08PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: >> > Anyhow I was thinking at something more generic that only getting orig >> > sources >> I don't think a Debian diff.gz should contain arbitrary updates from >> upstream. > > I didn't imply that it should be some other kind of updates, but > generally some work that should be done before building the package. But > probably it is not such a widespread need,
I don't think it's a question of "widespread need". I think the examples you gave (documentation updates and "microrelease patches") should not be treated this way. Either you take all that upstream provides at that point in time - then make a new upstream version (and use the date as (part of) the version number). Or review them individually, then you don't need a makefile target. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
