[Build-common-hackers] get-orig-source target in debian/rules

George Danchev danchev at spnet.net
Fri Aug 26 11:49:03 UTC 2005


On Friday 26 August 2005 14:31, Martin Quinson wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 01:04:22PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 09:41:40AM +0300, George Danchev wrote:
> > > 	* Since it is a common target I think it could be provided by cdbs or
> > > any similar package and should not be reinvented every now and then.
> >
> > The code for doing so has already been invented, see
> > dpatch-get-origtargz from the dpatch package.
>
> Or, alternatively, the /usr/share/quilt/quilt.debbuild.mk makefile chunk in
> the quilt package.

The only wishlist I could have with these two is the ability for sum checking 
(md5, sha1) to ensire that the contents of upstream file was has not been 
silently changed for some reason keeping the same file name.

P.S. Please CC, I'm not subscribed.

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