On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, Russ Allbery wrote: > Manoj Srivastava <sriva...@debian.org> writes: > > > My slight preference is a script with a well known name, since > > that script can then be extracted and used by DEHS/PTS like systems, > > without requireing that the whole source be unpoacked and > > ./debian/rules be runnable (I have sanity checks in my debian/rules) > > A (minor) problem with an external script is that dpkg-source won't make > it executable, so you have to make it executable before running it (or > assume what language it's written in, which seems like a bad move).
A problem which is also solved with format 3.0 (quilt) since the debian files are now stored in a tarball. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Contribuez à Debian et gagnez un cahier de l'admin Debian Lenny : http://www.ouaza.com/wp/2009/03/02/contribuer-a-debian-gagner-un-livre/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org