Bug#206937: [Build-common-hackers] Bug#206937: cdbs: simple-patchsys.mk question

Colin Walters Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>, 206937@bugs.debian.org
Wed, 27 Aug 2003 01:27:26 -0400


tag 206937 pending
thanks

On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 20:24, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> Package: cdbs
> Version: 0.4.5.2
> 
> Hi Colin!
> 
> Just been playing with CDBS, and have a quick question: why does the
> simple-patchsys.mk module apply the patches to DEB_BUILDDIR and not to
> DEB_SRCDIR?  

Honestly, I don't know.  Jeff Bailey made this change.  Jeff, do you
have any comments about this?  I've changed it to DEB_SRCDIR in CVS, let
me know if that's wrong.