Firstly I'd just like to say that I think this is a fantastic direction to be heading in. I look forward very much to the demise of dpatch :-).
I do however very much share Colin's view about the desirability of preserving the .orig.tar.gz's, the ability to unpack a Debian source package with non-Debian tools, and the ability to unpack a source package without needing to install a suitably recent one of fourteen possible revision control systems :-). On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 10:18:17PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > (I have a strong adverse reaction to duplicated information, so shipping > the working tree in .git format and .orig.tar.gz format irks me, > particularly if it's required) Like Colin, I can quite understand this point of view. I'd like to make a completely crazy suggestion. How about we ship the .orig.tar.gz, plus an rsync batched update (with a suitably early rsync version) which turns the unpacked source into working tree plus revision history ? Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]