Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.10.21 Severity: wishlist Hello,
this is a very simple and non-intrusive change that I wish to see in dpkg-source. I would like to make it read the contents of the future .diff.gz file from a user-specified location and not run diff (and other preparations to extract the unmodified source). The diff contents could be specified using an environment variable, for example. The implementation should be no problem for a Perl hacker familiar with dpkg-source source. Background: I wrote and maintain svn-buildpackage scripts, and since the diff'ing work can be done much more efficient with svn, I would like to use it. Large source packages that use dpatch to maintain patches make no fun - dpkg-source first unpacks the original source then makes the expensive diff run. The proposed change could make our work much faster (in combination with svn-export via links, as done by svn-buildpackage). Regards, Eduard. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.5-rc3 Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 Versions of packages dpkg-dev depends on: ii binutils 2.14.90.0.7-6 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii cpio 2.5-1.1 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar ii make 3.80-7 The GNU version of the "make" util ii patch 2.5.9-1 Apply a diff file to an original ii perl [perl5] 5.8.3-3 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii perl-modules 5.8.3-3 Core Perl modules. -- no debconf information
